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| EVENTS OF THE WEEK ; 
DOMESTIC. — Seven oil companies 
and six individuals, including one woman, 
are under indictment on a charge of using 
the mails to defraud, it became known at 
New York when sealed findings of a Fed¬ 
eral Grand Jury were released on the 
motion of Maxwell S. Mattuek. Assistant 
United States Attorney, April 5. The 
defendant companies are the Century 
Consolidated Oil Company, n Delaware 
corporation with an authorized capital of 
$10,000,000: the Hercules Oil Company, 
the Queen Oil Company, the Ranger Oil 
Company, the Shannon Oil Company and 
the Acme Finance Corporation. The in¬ 
dividuals named in the indictment arc 
Mrs. Cora Stetson Butler, Mark S. 
Matthews and Bonewitz X. Dawson of 
New York City; Walter S. Clarke of 
Boston. Ernest S. Phillips of Kansas 
City, Mo., and Dixie L. Peters of Los 
Angeles. 
Sentences aggregating 137 years were 
imposed April 5 Ly Judge Bleakley in 
White Plains, N. Y., on three young men 
who pleaded guilty to robbery and one 
guilty of grand larceny. Leo Borkowsky, 
indicted on seven counts for holdups and 
carrying a revolver, got seven indeter¬ 
minate sentences, extending from 40 to 
00 years. Charles Cannon, robbery, gor 
seven years; James Smith, indicted on 
four counts, got from 20 to 40 years; 
while Melfurd Schuster, on three grand 
larceny charges, got 15 to 30 years. 
The giant steamer Leviathan, which 
has been lying at her pier in Hoboken. 
N. .1., since September, 1919, started 
April 9 for Newport News, Va,, where, 
she is to be repaired for the American 
mercantile marine service. The bid for 
reconditioning the vessel was $8,200,000, 
but it is believed the expense will be 
$10,000,000. The vessel has been re¬ 
named the President Harding. 
Captain Roald Amundsen, Arctic ex¬ 
plorer. and four flying companions nar¬ 
rowly escaped death at Miola. Pa., April 
10, when the monoplane in which they 
were going from New York to Cleveland, 
the first lap of a Continental journey, 
turned over when it was forced down in 
a field. All occupants were reported 
slightly scratched and bruised, but other¬ 
wise uninjured. Those with Captain 
Amundson were H. T. Lewis of Belle- 
fonte. Pa.: II. F. Gade of New York; 
E. Buhl and J. Osdell. 
A petition for a writ of habeas corpus 
for Erwin R. Bergdoll, now serving a 
four-year term of imprisonment for eva¬ 
sion of military service during the war, 
was tiled April 10 in the Supreme Court 
at Washington. The court is asked to 
consider whether the sentence was ex¬ 
cessive; whether Bergdoll, since he never 
was inducted into the army, was subject 
to court martial, and whether the selec¬ 
tive service act of May 18, 1917, was a 
lawful exercise of power and constitu¬ 
tional. The United States District. Court 
for Kansas recently considered such an 
application and denied it. 
John Yitnnge and Mario Lopez, con¬ 
victed at Philadelphia April 10 of rob¬ 
bing messengers of the Southwestern 
National Bank and shooting two police¬ 
men last month, received unusually heavy 
prison terms. Yitnnge was sentenced to 
from 35 years and six months to 38 
years, and his companion from 28 years 
and six months to 30 years. They were 
convicted without the jury leaving the 
box. 
Property damage estimated at $500,000 
was done April 10 to lines of the North¬ 
western-Bell Telephone Company in 
Nebraska. Western Iowa, Southern Min¬ 
nesota and Southeastern South Dakota 
by snow, sleet and rain. The area af¬ 
fected covers approximately 000.000 
square miles, (he company estimating at 
least 5,000 poles were down. 
The Wisconsin State Supreme Court 
ruled April 11 that home brew cannot he 
manufactured even for personal con¬ 
sumption. The court ordered Judge Al¬ 
fred Jenks of Iowa ('minty to decide the 
case of the State Prohibition Commission 
against Curtis Nelson in favor of the 
State. Nelson had 40 gallons of home 
brew in his house. He admitted manu¬ 
facturing it. Jmt explained it was for his 
own use. Judge Jenks said there was 
doubt whether the State prohibition law 
included the “manufacture” only of home 
brew, and certified the case to the 
Supreme Court for instruction. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The annual 
meeting of the American Guernsey Cattle 
Club will be held at the Hotel Drake, 
Lake Shore Drive and Upper Michigan 
Avenue. Chicago, Ill., Wednesday, May 
10. at 10:30 a. m. The business of the 
meeting will consist, of report, of the 
year’s work of the club’s office, recom¬ 
mendations of the executive committee, 
election of officers, 
California interests have purchased for 
$800,000 the 7.500-acre ranch in Fresno 
County formerly owned ‘by Lord Fitz- 
william of London. 
WASHINGTON. — All operations of 
the office of the Alien Property Custodian 
under the Wilson Administration, when 
A. Mitchell Palmer occupied the office, 
and for the year just closed under the 
administration of President Harding, are 
covered in a report submitted to the 
Senate April 10. The report, was made 
by Colonel Thomas W. Miller, now Alien 
Property Custodian, in response to the 
resolution of Senator King, which called 
for exhaustive data on the conduct of 
the office. A striking feature of the re¬ 
port is the disclosure it makes of the fees 
paid to attorneys and the salaries of 
officers and directors of corporations, also 
of the sums paid out for accounting, 
auditing, appraising, advertising and 
printing. Attorneys in several cases 
drew fees totaling more than $100,000. 
British shipyards are able to build 
cargo steamers at lower cost than Ameri¬ 
can shipyards, according to Horner L. 
Ferguson, president of the Newport News 
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 
who was a witness on the ship subsidy 
bill at the joint session of the House 
Merchant Marine Committee arid the 
Senate Commerce Committee April 10. 
The differential today in favor of the 
British yard is about $35 a ilend weight 
ton, or over 36 per cent. The future 
differential, according to Mr. Ferguson, 
cannot be taken as less than 20 per cent 
on the American costs. These figures 
apply to ordinary cargo steamers. 
Request, for an appropriation of $1,- 
500,000 in the army supply hill for the 
installation of a new cable between the 
United States and Alaska was asked of 
the Senate Appropriations Committee 
April 10 by the War Department- Lieut.- 
Col. C. A. Sebane of the Signal Corns 
said that, although many advocate the 
use of radio for communication with 
Alaska, it never could displace the cable 
for private or confidential government 
message. Col. Sebane said that Great 
Britain had a monopoly of the produc¬ 
tion of cables, but that $1,500,000 would 
induce some of the great American elec¬ 
tric concerns to manufacture the cable. 
The House April 5 passed a hill intro¬ 
duced by Representative Johnson 
(Wash.) which provides for the deporta- 
linn of any alien convicted of manufac¬ 
turing. selling, transporting, importing 
or exporting intoxicating liquors for bev¬ 
erage purposes, or opium or coca leaves, 
or any preparation of opium or coca 
leaves. The vote was 222 to 73. The hill as 
passed authorizes the Secretary of Labor 
to deport aliens convicted of the crimes 
stated above if he, after hearing, finds 
that such aliens are undesirable residents 
of the United States. 
Senator Short ridge (Cal.) introduced 
a bill April 5 providing for the enroll¬ 
ment of all aliens annually and for the 
payment by each alien of an annual fee 
of $24 to be used in instruction in citi¬ 
zenship and for education in the Ameri¬ 
can form of government. The measure 
also provides for the codifying of all nat¬ 
uralization laws, for changing the name 
of the Naturalization Bureau to the Bu¬ 
reau of Citizenship. Secretary of Labor 
Davis and Chief Naturalization Exam¬ 
iner Crist favored the measure. 
Senator McCumber (N. D.), chairman 
of the Finance Committee, reported to 
the Senate April 11 the amended Ford¬ 
ney tariff bill, which on many commodi¬ 
ties provides the highest duties ever im¬ 
posed by a tariff measure in the history 
of the country. The Senate Committee 
discarded the American valuation plan, 
as contained in the Fordney hill, and 
adopted the foreign valuation as a basis 
for computing tariffs. Because of the 
change in making the valuation on goods 
and commodities the rates in the amended 
bill are lower for the most part than the 
rates in the House bill. However, the 
April 22, 1922 
specific rates where the valuation did not 
figure in the computation are higher in 
the Senate measure than in the House 
hill. The bill will be taken up by the 
Senate for discussion on Thursday. April 
20. Chairman McCumber declared in his 
report Hint high rates were necessary to 
protect American manufacturers due to 
unusual conditions following the war. He 
said quotations made by foreign pro¬ 
ducers for export sale of late have been 
s«> extremely low that, they threaten the 
destruction of American industries and 
have consequently demoralized American 
trade. Treasury experts figure the bill 
will raise from $300,000,000 to $350,000,- 
000 revenue annually. The Fordney bill, 
it was estimated, would raise about $300,- 
000,000 annually, while the Underwood 
law yielded between $200,000,000 and 
$300,000,000. The House passed the 
Fordney tariff bill on July 21. 1921. 
Since then the measure has been in the 
hands of the Senate Finance Committee. 
H is expected that the completed hill will 
be before the Senate for two months or 
more for discussion. It will take the 
place of the emergency tariff act now in 
force and become operative as soon as the 
President affixes his signature. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
May 10—American Guernsey Cattle 
Club, Hotel Drake. Chicago. Ill. 
May 28-30—Southern Seedsmen’s As¬ 
sociation, annual meeting. New Orleans, 
La. 
•Tune 7 — Annual meeting. Holstein- 
Friesian Association of America, Kansas 
City. Mo. 
June 14 — Annual meeting. Ayrshire 
Breeders’ Association. Philadelphia, Pa. 
June 14-16—Farmers’ Week, Pennsyl¬ 
vania State College, State College, Pa. 
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