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the crew shares amounting to $1,975 
each. 
In the last five years there have been 
Hit),000 forest fires in the United States. 
The territory burned over was 56,488,000 
acres, an area larger than that included 
in the States of Pennsylvania and Ohio. 
The value of the property and timber de¬ 
stroyed was $85,700,000. The American 
Forestry Association estimates that fully 
NO per cent of this tremendous loss was 
due to preventable causes, and a large 
part of it to criminal carelessness. 
WASHINGTON.—A Senate judiciary 
subcommittee began hearings May 8 on 
the hill sponsored by the Department of 
Justice which was designed to make rob¬ 
beries of national hanks less attractive to 
persons outside the employ of these insti¬ 
tutions by making such crimes come 
within Federal jurisdiction. Under pres¬ 
ent statues any employe of a national 
bank who is charged with larceny or em¬ 
bezzlement of the bank's funds is dealt 
with by the Federal authorities, while a 
burglar of the mask, gun and dynamite 
variety is prosecuted by the .State gov¬ 
ernment. Officials have maintained that 
not only are the penalties more severe 
under Federal laws, but the respect for 
Federal authorities has been found to 
serve as a more potent deterrent. 
“As a matter of justice’’ the House 
was asked May 8 by its war claims com¬ 
mittee to pay $5,000 to the widow of 
l’cler Leslie Martin of Columbus, O., 
who died of blood poisoning as a result of 
his work in helping to bury the bodies of 
more than 500 soldiers who died at (’amp 
Sherman during the war time epidemic 
of influenza. A bill by Representative 
Ricketts (Ohio), Republican, asked that 
the widow be paid $25,000. but the 
amount was reduced b.v the committee. 
President Harding has summoned 15 
of the leading transportation executives 
of I he country, it: was said May 9 at the 
executive offices, to attend a dinner at 
the White House May 20, to discuss the 
rate situation. It is understood the 
President will ask the transportation 
chiefs to consider the possibility of ad¬ 
justing railroad freight rates downward 
as a voluntary matter, because the Inter¬ 
state Commerce Commission membership 
is said to have concluded that it cannot 
legally compel reductions to an extent 
satisfying to sections of the public and 
business sentiment. 
President Harding and Attorney-Gen¬ 
eral Uaugherty revealed May 9 to Con¬ 
gress the great, scope of the Administra¬ 
tion’s program for punishing those guilty 
of the hundreds of frauds perpetrated 
upon the government during the war, and 
liians for recovering many millions of 
dollars. Wholesale indictments, cover¬ 
ing every section of the United States, 
are to be made immediately in “two cases 
of the first magnitude’’ and others will 
follow closely. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The coal miners’ strike, 
five weeks old May 6, has caused losses 
to the Pittsburgh. Pa., district of ap¬ 
proximately $26,800,000, us follows: 
Losses in coal production, 5,000.000 tons, 
estimated at $12,500,000: loss of wages 
to miners, $7,800,000; loss to commercial 
interests through reduced revenues at¬ 
tributed to strike, $4,000,000; loss to 
manufacturers forced to curtail opera¬ 
tions ou account of coal shortage, $2.- 
500.000. 
The Rhode Island textile strike en¬ 
tered its sixteenth week May 8. when no 
adjustment was in sight. Meanwhile the 
striking operatives, who are conserva¬ 
tively estimated to number 10.000, are 
losing approximately $180,000 a week. 
In round figures the loss in wages for the 
fifteen weeks in which the strike already 
has been in progress is $2,700,000. The 
loss to the mill owners hardly can lie es¬ 
timated. but it is said to reach into the 
hundreds of thousands. In the Pawtuck¬ 
et Valley, where 6.000 operatives either 
are out on strike or out of work because 
of the strike, the loss in wages proceeds 
at the rate of $105,000 a week, a situa¬ 
tion which merchants nil through the 
valley have felt keenly for nearly four 
months. 
Two naval seaplanes met in liead-on 
collision over the Potomac River May 5 
while traveling 100 miles an hour. Two 
navy officers were killed. The two occu¬ 
pants of one were .saved, while those in 
the other were drowned in 35 ft. of wa¬ 
ter. with never a chance to free them¬ 
selves from the tangled wreckage. The 
two officers killed were Lieut. Harold F. 
Selden, popularly known as “Runny” 
Selden. one of the foremost of the naval 
aviators, and Ensign Frank Miller, a 
propeller expert assigned to the office of 
the chief of the Bureau of Naval Avia¬ 
tion of the Navy Department. 
Malcolm Holman and James Miller, 
bandit “black sheep” of wealthy Chicago 
families, were held to the Grand Jury for 
robbery at Chicago May 5 in bonds of 
nearly half a million dollars. Judge Ja¬ 
cobs of the Roys’ Court fixed heavy bonds 
for each of the 17 highway robberies 
which the young bandits confessed. The 
total is $465,000. and the boys cannot be 
freed unless their families schedule al¬ 
most. $2,000,000 worth of property as se¬ 
curity. 
Passenger service valued at over $17.- 
000,000 a year is rendered by passenger 
automobiles passing in and out of Con¬ 
necticut where the State boundary lines 
are crossed by the New York-Boston 
turnpike, according to estimates issued 
by the .State Highway Department, based 
on railroad rates. It would cost over 
$5,000,000 a year to transport over the 
railroads the freight which passes 
through on motor trucks. The figures 
were determined by a traffic census made 
at Thompsonville and Greenwich. 
In a suit filed in the New Jersey Su¬ 
preme Court May 8 the Atlas Finishing 
Company of North Bergen seeks to re¬ 
cover $2,000,000 damages against the 
Hackensack 'Water Company. On June 
23 last a fire destroyed the Atlas plant, 
and although the plant was equipped 
with fire fighting apparatus, it is alleged 
there was not sufficient water or pressure 
to combat the blaze. 
Much excitement has been occasioned 
in Northern Ontario, Canada, by the dis¬ 
covery of a new placer gold mining area 
south of Morgan or Munro Lake, accord¬ 
ing to consular reports received by the 
Department of Commerce May 8. One 
hundred and fifty claims have been staked 
out within the last three weeks, and pros¬ 
pectors are entering the region on every 
train. The new placer mining district is 
about, four miles east of the famous Croe¬ 
sus mine which produced gold in large 
quantities prior to 1914. 
Bench warrants were issued in the 
United Stoics District Court at New 
York May 8 for the arrest of Charles \V. 
Morse and his three sons, Edwin A.. . 
Benjamin W. and Harry F. Morse, be- 
cause they failed to appear voluntarily ^ 
before the court and plead to indict- ’ 
meats returned ou April 27 and charging 
them with conspiracy to use the mails to 
defraud investors in stock of the United 
States Steamship Company, 
Nine persons were injured, two prob¬ 
ably mortally, May 9, when an automo¬ 
bile, taking a sharp turn on the Lake- 
wood Road near New Egypt, N. J., 
crashed into a tree. The occupants were 
thrmyn into a ditch, four being pinned oat 
beneath wreckage. When rescuers j 
reached the scene all nine were uncon¬ 
scious. The wreckage caught fire, but he 
occupants of a following cur extinguished Tb 
the flames. Magistrate George A. Raw- s 
ley of Burlington ordered that all nine ' , 
of the ear’s occupants be held under 
charges of transporting liquor and of be- bon 
ing drunk and disorderly. The polite sav sav 
liquor was found in the wreck. Edward , 
Trainer of Philadelphia is also charged '' 
with driving an automobile without a hoi 
license. wo 
The year 11)21 was one of scanty re- 
eeipts and low prices for the fishing in- _ 
dustry off the New England and Mari- Sue 
time Provincial coast, according to the kni 
annual review of the Boston Fish Bureau ^ 
made public May 9. The mackerel fish¬ 
ing, described os the barometer of the P"‘ 
deep sea trade, was the poorest on ree- iiv< 
ord. Ground fishing was not hit so hard t j ir 
and tiie schooner Frances S. Grueby, 
most successful of those engaged in this 10,1 
trade, earned $90,000 during the year, ( 
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