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Countrywide Produce Situation 
Prices of leading vegetables and fruits 
range generally lirm to strong, except in 
a few lines of Southern products, which 
have weakened under the weight of in¬ 
creasing supplies. 
POTATOES IN STRONG POSITION. 
Recent heavy gains in potato values 
have been well maintained, with some 
further moderate advances. The price 
uplift started in. producing sections and 
kept: relatively in advance of the city mar¬ 
kets. suggesting that the cause lies in 
diminishing supplies and not in the de¬ 
mand. although consuming markets have 
responded well to the strong trend at 
shipping points. This view is sustained 
by the downward trend in the number of 
carlot shipments, only Maine keeping up 
full volume of movement and shipping 
500 to (300 cars per week, while leading 
Western shipping States are moving only 
200 to 400 cars each. The volume of old 
stock from all sections is less than 400 
cars daily on-an average, hut new stock 
from Florida runs about 50 cars per day. 
Growers in northern producing sections 
get. 150 to 200 in the West. Quotations 
for best stock in Western New York pro¬ 
ducing sections are $2.50 to $2.90 f. o. b. 
shipping point, and Maine producing sec¬ 
tions range from $1.85 to $1.90 f. o. b., 
sacked, per 100 pounds. City markets 
range from $2.25 to $2.75 in the West 
and South Central section, and $2.50 to 
$•‘>.25 in the East. New potatoes (South¬ 
ern i decline sharply from the opening 
prices, but still bring about $8 per barrel 
in Northern cities. 
NEW ONIONS MOVING FREELY. 
Old onions are slowing down to a few 
cars daily and prices have weakened, 
especially in the West, under liberal sup- 
lies of new Texas stock. Eastern mar¬ 
kets average about $5 per 100 lbs., and 
western, $4 to $4.50. Texas new yellow 
onions ranged from $3.75 to $4.75 per 
crate wholesale in northern and western 
cities and $5 in many eastern cities, a 
very heavy supply considering the sup¬ 
posed short, crop in Texas. 
BEANS DOING BETTER. 
The held bean situation continues to 
improve, as shown by increase of export 
demand and the firm trend of domestic 
markets. The problem is the large sur¬ 
plus in California and adjoining States, 
resulting from two enormous crops. Cali¬ 
fornia producers are working hard for an 
export outlet and with considerable suc¬ 
cess, it appears. The range of white 
stock in city markets wholesale is still 
$7.50 to $8 per lOO-Ibs., sacked. A few 
lots were sold in eastern producing sec¬ 
tions. at $7.25 f. o. b., but there is little 
activity in eastern shipping sections com¬ 
pared with the increasing movement from 
California and the Far West. American 
beans will do much toward solving the 
European food problem. 
HIGH PRICES FOR BERRIES. 
Southern strawberries are coming chief¬ 
ly from Louisiana and further north to 
the North Carolina section. Prices hold 
up fairly well, ranging from 30c to 45c 
per qt. wholesale in the North. Southern 
tomatoes still come chiefly from the east 
coast of Florida and bring $4-$5 per car¬ 
rier in the North. g. B. F. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Circulation throughout 
California of rhe referendum petitions 
against the national prohibition amend¬ 
ment and the Harris act to wiforce the 
amendment began April 24. it was an¬ 
nounced by the California Grape Protec¬ 
tive Association. The association an¬ 
nounced it expected to obtain twice the 
34,333 signatures required in order to 
place the issues on the ballot at the next 
general election. All forces opposed to 
prohibition were co-operating in the ref¬ 
erendum campaign. 
Albert Wheeling, 25 years old. of Hol¬ 
comb, Mo., recently pleaded guilty in the 
I’nited States District Court to having 
chopped off his left hand with an axe 
July 21, 1918. to evade military service. 
He was sentenced to six months in prison 
by Federal Judge Dyer. According to 
Wheeler’s confession, he had been drink¬ 
ing. 
Albert Paul Fricke, a naturalized citi¬ 
zen who became involved in the affairs of 
Hermann We-ssels, German agent, was ac¬ 
quitted of having committed treason by 
a jury in the United States District Court 
April 25. Fricke was one of the men in¬ 
dicted previously on a charge of con¬ 
spiracy to violate tin* espionage' law under 
a section that prescribed a capital offence. 
Other defendants were Jeremiah A. 
O’Leary, Emil Kipper and John T. Ryan. 
O’Leary and Kipper have been admitted 
to bail. Ryan is a fugitive. Wessels, 
former second officer on the Imperator, 
ami Rareness Marie von Kretschmou. 
alias Marie de Victories, were the cen¬ 
tral figures of what was regarded as an 
important spy ring here to aid Germany. 
Fricke was released under bond, there 
being another indictment against him un¬ 
der the espionage act. 
Lieutenant Aldington Jolly, of Chicago, 
was killed April 27 at. Freeport, N. Y., 
while on a trial flight in a new “bullet” 
machine. The ’plane is a departure in 
aeronautic design and was built without 
connecting struts or rods between the 
wings, giving each ’plane independent ac¬ 
tion. Jolly was up 150 feet when the 
wings collapsed. The “bullet” is a ma¬ 
chine of 180 horsepower and it is claimed 
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can attain a speed of 150 miles an hour. 
From a statement issued by the Federal 
Shipping Board April 27 it is learned 
that, according to reports just compiled, 
the sailors now being mustered out of the 
service show a strong tendency to go 
back to sea as officers in the merchant 
marine. Skippers of merchantmen earn 
$4,500 a year and chief engineers as much 
as $3,450 annually. To encourage these 
worthy ambitions the United .States Ship¬ 
ping Board now has 2(3 training schools 
established. 
Point Judith Light, near Newport, 
R. I., has been fitted with an electrically 
operated phonograph and megaphone ap¬ 
paratus which literally transforms it into 
a “talking lighthouse.” Vessels fitted 
with a receiving outfit can plainly hear 
the megaphoned warning, repeated every 
rive seconds, “Point Judith Light!” Any 
ship that comes within two miles of the 
light hears a mysterious voice also call¬ 
ing: “You're getting closer. Keep off!” 
An air “delivery wagon” arrived April 
28 at Asbury Park. N. .T., bringing goods 
from a Newark department store. The 
merchandise was packed in the body of 
a Curtiss hydroplane, piloted by William 
F. Sullivan. It sailed into the water, a 
little off shore, and then "taxied” in close 
to the beach, where the goods were taken 
off by a rowboat. 
The first German freight steamship 
rhat ha* arrived in American waters 
-once the end of the war is at anchor off 
New York. Her name is the Weisenfels. 
She will be used to transport relief car¬ 
goes to Europe. She was built in Bremen 
in 1915, and this is her maiden trip. Her 
officers and crew are British and she flies 
the British flag. Two other German 
freighters, the Falkeufels and the North¬ 
ern Range, are on their way to this port. 
Lieb Samsonaviteh. also known as Leon 
Samson, a former student of Columbia 
University, in New York, has been ar¬ 
rested at Toronto with two companions 
charged with revolutionary activities. 
Samsonaviteh. whose deportation will be 
asked, was expelled from Columbia after 
he attempted to hold a revolutionary 
demonstration near the campus. The 
meeting was broken up by students and 
sailors. At the time of the arrest the 
police seized a quantity of revolvers and 
ammunition in the rooms occupied by 
Samsonaviteh and his associates. After 
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his expulsion from Columbia Samsonaviteh 
tried vainly to gain admission to Yale 
and Harvard. Later he crossed the 
Canadian border near Buffalo in an auto¬ 
mobile. avoiding the immigration officers. 
He was refused entrance to Toronto Uni¬ 
versity and a college at St. John, N. B. 
His arrest followed addresses made be¬ 
fore radical gatherings and a meeting of 
foreign unemployed, at which he urged 
armed revolution. 
The ruling of the Federal Trade Com¬ 
mission last .Tune that Sears, Roebuck & 
Co. must not sell sugar at lees than cost 
was modified by the United States Court 
of Appeals at Chicago ‘ April 29. The 
court sustained the commission’s conten¬ 
tion that Sears, Roebuck & Co. must not 
injure competitions by advertising that 
the cheapness of the sugar was due to 
rhe huge buying power of the house, but 
held that the mail order house could sell 
at any price it chooses. 
Seventeen miners were killed and seven 
others injured, four probably fatally, by 
an explosion of coal gas April 29 in a 
mine of the Majestic Coal Mining Com¬ 
pany. 22 miles north of Birmingham. Ala. 
A number of miners were entombed, but 
were taken out by rescue teams. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Ralph W. 
Moss, former Representative in Congress, 
was gored and trampled by a bull at his 
farm in Clay County. Ind., recently. He 
was takeu to a Brazil. Ind.. hospital. He 
served four terms in Congress and was 
identified with the farm loan act and 
other important legislation. 
Senator Curtis (Kan.» presented to 
the Railroad Administration April 25 a 
request for the Kansas State Agricultural 
Committee that reduced rates be given to 
farm laborers from Chicago to induce 
them to go to Kansas to assist in the 
wheat harvest this Summer. More than 
100,000 men, the Senator said, would be 
required this year to harvest the wheat 
crop. 
According to reports received from the 
Ohio River bottom apple growing dis¬ 
trict. at least half of the crop of 100,000 
barrels has been destroyed by the cold 
weather of April 24-2(3. Reports indicate 
that the Columbiana County, Ohio, and 
Hancock County, W. Ya.. peach and ap¬ 
ple crops, valued at approximately $500,- 
000, have been damaged, but to what 
extent is unknown. Damage is reported 
in New England and many other sections. 
Summer meeting of the New Jersey 
State Horticultural Society will probably 
be a two days’ run in Monmouth County. 
July 11-12. Annual meeting in Atlantic 
City probably December 3-4-5. 
Thirty-five hundred homing pigeons 
were released April 27 at Westfield. 
Mass., in a race to Eastern pens in the 
State and in Providence, II. I. The 
birds came in a special car accompanied 
by officials of rhe various pens repre¬ 
sented. Lieut. Trimmings, who had 
charge of the pigeons with the American 
forces overseas, was starter. 
The desire of British cotton spinners 
to emancipate themselves from their de¬ 
pendency upon American cotton has led 
to an inquiry as to the Indian cotton pro¬ 
duction. The Lancashire cotton industry 
especially desires to use more of the pro¬ 
ducts of the Empire and prepare for the 
time when American manufacturers will 
use the bulk of the cotton produced in 
the Southern States. 
WASHINGTON.—Comptroller of the 
Treasury Warwick has discouraged the 
proposal of the War Risk Insurance 
Bureau to require persons receiving allot¬ 
ments and allowance checks to state on 
the back of rhe check the relationship to 
the soldier or sailor. This course by the 
war risk bureau had been advocated by 
the Department of Justice attorneys to 
aid them in prosecuting cases of fraud. 
The Comptroller held that the adminis¬ 
trative difficulties would be too great un¬ 
der the proposed plan. 
Plans for Summer training camps for 
the Reserve < officers Training Corps have 
l)een approved by the War Department. 
Six cantonments will be used for this 
purpose, covering the entire country. 
They will opeii June 21 and continue 
until August 2 for an intensive six weeks 
course of instruction. 
An official report from the Surgeon- 
General. issued by the War Department 
April 29, gives the total number of deaths 
reported in the army during the war to 
date as 111.179. Of this total 56,639, 
or 51 per cent, were from disease. 43 
per cent in battle or from wounds re¬ 
ceived in battle, and six per cent from 
other injuries. Of. the deaths from dis¬ 
ease about 12.000 have occurred since 
hostilities ceased. 
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