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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—An investigation of al¬ 
leged passport frauds by which it was 
said Rumanians emigrating to their native 
land have been fleeced out of thousands 
of dollars was begun Aug. 28 in Jefferson 
Market court, New York, with the ar¬ 
raignment of three men for conspiracy on 
complaint of John Baein, a Rumanian. 
Bacin said the men had collected $195.25 
for a ticket to sail on the Cunard liner 
Caronia. lie never obtained the ticket, 
he said, and the passport which he had 
turned over to the men was returned 
voided by the State Department. Floyd 
II. Wilmot. assistant counsel of the State 
Industrial Commission, appearing on be¬ 
half of Baein, told the court he could pro¬ 
duce as witnesses 84 Rumanians who had 
been given false passports. He charged 
that the three defendants had obtained 
more than $10,000. 
Broughton Brandenberg, one time mag¬ 
azine writer, was indicted by the Grand 
Jury in New York Aug. 29 on charges of 
grand larceny and conspiracy in connec¬ 
tion with the sale of stock in the New 
York New Methods Molding and Metals 
Corporation, which undertook to mine 
amphibole asbestos, rubies and amethysts 
in Staten Island. Seven indictments in 
all were tiled against him. 
Race rioting broke out at Knoxville, 
Tenn., Aug. 80, the immediate cause be¬ 
ing the storming of the county jail by a 
mob of 1.000 whites in effort to seize a 
negro charged with murder of a white 
woman. Casualties: Seven killed, more 
than 20 injured. 
Two American aviator officers on bor¬ 
der patrol duty were fired upon Sept. 2 
by a group of Mexicans while flying up 
the Rio Grande near Laredo, and Capt. 
Davis B. McNabb was wounded in the 
head. Ilis companion, Lieut. Johnson, 
brought the machine safely to earth on 
the American side. McNabb was taken 
to a farmhouse and an airplane with a 
surgeon and medical supplies was rushed 
to his aid from headquarters. 
Charles A. Ambler, former Pennsyl¬ 
vania State Insurance Commissioner, was 
held in $20,000 bail in Philadelphia Sept. 
2 on charges of conspiracy in the wreck¬ 
ing of the North Penn Bank, and of em¬ 
bezzlement. The bail was entered by the 
National Surety Company of New York. 
It was testified at the hearing that Am¬ 
bler “kited” checks aggregating $750,000 
through the North Penn Bank. lie is 
alleged to have scattered trust funds in 
suburban banks and then drew upon those 
when he needed cash for his own or the 
Ambler-Davis contracting firm accounts \ 
in city banks. 
Members of two automobile parties 
were fined $10 each Sept. 2 by Samuel 
Thompson. Justice of the Peace in Chap- 
paqua, N. Y.. for stealing fruit from trees 
belonging to C. W. Page, a special police¬ 
man. It was the fourth conviction for 
the same offence within a few days and 
residents of towns all through West¬ 
chester County are entering complaints 
against fruit thieves who stop their motor 
cars in the highways and strip orchards. 
In some instances* trucks have gone out 
from New York City on moonlight nights 
and have returned loaded with fruit. The 
occupants of limousines driven by uni¬ 
formed chauffeurs, in other cases, have 
not been above pilfering apples and 
peaches from trees near country road¬ 
sides. 
Three hundred representatives of the 
Left Wing faction of the national Social¬ 
ist party, which recently withdrew from 
the parent, body, met at Chicago Sept. 2. 
organized the Communist Labor party of 
America and adopted the emblem of the 
Soviet Republic of Russia with the motto: 
“Workers of the world, unite.” The em¬ 
blem consists of a scythe and hammer, 
surrounded by a wreath of wheat. A 
suggestion that a torch be added to the 
emblem was voted down. One of the first 
acts of the new party was to approve a 
plan for a general strike in the United 
States on October 8 to compel the release 
of Thomas J. Mooney, Eugene V. Debs 
and other alleged class war prisoners. 
The new party, which claims to have rep¬ 
resentatives from every State in the Union 
at the convention, decided to use. phono¬ 
graph records of “The International” and 
other Russian Soviet eongs to spread the 
radical propaganda. Among resolutions 
adopted was one demanding the imme¬ 
diate withdrawal of American troops from 
Russia and Hungary. Charged with ad¬ 
vocating the overthrow of the United 
States Government, Dennis E. Batt, or¬ 
ganizer for the radicals, was arrested and 
removed from the Communist convention. 
Batt’s case, it is said, will be the first 
brought under the Illinois sedition law. 
which provides State punishment for any 
one advocating “ the reformation or over¬ 
throw, by violence or other unlawful 
means, of the representative form of gov¬ 
ernment now secured to the citizens of 
the United States.” 
FARM AND* GARDEN.—At the East¬ 
ern Berkshire Congress, held at the East¬ 
ern States Exposition, Springfield. Mass., 
Sept. 15-19, the judging will be done by 
Prof. C. F. Curtis, dean of the Iowa 
Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa, and 
president of the American Berkshire As¬ 
sociation. The hogs will be judged Sept. 
17, and on the following day there is to 
be a sale, which contains bred sows and 
gilts, open sows and gilts, some young 
stock and a few good young boars. 
A new scale of prices for the lower 
grades of wheat for the 1919 crop was 
announced Aug. 28 by Julius S. Barnes, 
•Ih u RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 13, 1919 
head of the United States Grain Corpor¬ 
ation. These prices become effective Sept.. 
2. The price for Nos. 1 and 2 Northern 
remains the same as last year, $2.21% 
at Minneapolis . Other prices follow: 
No. 8 Northern, $2.15%; No. 4 Northern, 
$2.11%, and No. 5 Northern. $2.10%. 
Scott-Powell Dairies have been incor¬ 
porated at Baltimore, Md.. for the pur¬ 
pose of operating dairy plants in Penn¬ 
sylvania, the capitalization being $1,500.- 
000 . 
At the thirty-fifth annual convention of 
the Society of American Florists and Or¬ 
namental Horticulturists, held in Detroit, 
the following officers were elected for 
1920: President, A. L. Miller. Jamaica, 
N. Y.; vice-president, F. C. W. Brown, 
Cleveland, O.; secretary, John Young, 
New York; treasurer, J. J. lless, Omaha, 
Neb. The 1920 convention will be held 
in Cleveland. 
WASHINGTON.—Sale to France for 
$400,000,000 of all American Expedition¬ 
ary Forces property in that country, ex¬ 
cept that withheld for return to the Unit¬ 
ed States and for the use of troops re¬ 
maining. is provided for in a contract 
signed with the French Government. Pay¬ 
ment will »be made in 10-year gold bonds, 
bearing 5 per cent interest, from August 
1, 1920. The'bonds are to be redeemed in 
gold in Washington on a dollar basis or at 
the option of the United States in francs. 
The contract covers all “fixed installa¬ 
tion,” such as docks, wharves, railroads, 
storage warehouses, barracks and refrig¬ 
erating plants, as well as surplus clothing, 
subsistence stores, motor equipment and 
munitions. 
Criminal prosecution for alleged waste 
and extravagance of Federal war funds at 
the Government nitrate plant. Muscle 
Shoals, Ala., are being considered by the 
Department of Justice, Attorney General 
Palmer told the House Committee investi¬ 
gating War Department expenditures 
August 28. His testimony revealed that 
the department is completing an audit of 
all the expenditures at Muscle Shoals, 
which run into hundreds of millions of 
dollars. Charge^ of graft have been pre¬ 
sented to the Department, and the Attor¬ 
ney General said the audit, which has 
been in progress for several months, is to 
determine the facts, on which prosecutions 
will be based if they are deemed necessary. 
Charges that approximately $5,000,000 
of Government funds had been “squan¬ 
dered, misapplied and converted to the 
prospective uses of the Milwaukee Rail¬ 
road interests” were contained in a report 
telegraphed August 28 to Secretary of 
War Baker by the Congressional commit- 
lee investigating operations of the Spruce 
Production Division. The report declares 
that the expenditures of the Spruce Pro¬ 
duction Division were “wasteful and un¬ 
necessary.” It. concludes by saying that 
“further investigation may disclose con¬ 
ditions upon which a recovery can be had 
against John D. Ryan and others who 
are responsible for this wasteful expendi¬ 
ture of public funds.” 
The Senate Sept. 2 received and dis¬ 
cussed for several hours a bill outlining 
a permanent railroad policy as evolved 
by a bi-partisan interstate commerce sub¬ 
committee. Paramount among the fea¬ 
tures of the new measure, which will be 
known as the Cummins bill. Senator 
Cummins, Republican, of Iowa, having 
acted as chairman of the sub-committee, 
are provisions for termination of Govern¬ 
ment control of the railroads, their return 
to private ownership and operation under 
rigid Federal control and consolidation 
into regional systems, and prohibition of 
strikes and lockouts of employes. The 
measure contains none of the fundamen¬ 
tals of the Plumb plan. 
The House sub-committee investigating 
ordnance expenditures during the war 
made public Sept. 2 testimony taken in 
its hearing showing that the Government 
shell loading plant at Fort, Del., uncom¬ 
pleted when the armistice was signed, 
had cost the Government to date $14,000,- 
000. although the estimated cost when the 
contract was let on the cost-plus basis 
was placed at from $1,250,000 to $1,500,- 
000. The difference between the estimat¬ 
ed cost, and the total thus far paid out by 
the Government for the building of the 
plant is shown in testimony given by 
Lieut.-Col. R. IT. Hawkins of the Ord¬ 
nance Department, and a report made last 
October by Major Clair Foster, of the 
construction division of the army, and in¬ 
serted bv the committee in the records. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Sept. 17—Eastern Berkshire Congress 
Sale, Exposition Grounds, Springfield, 
Mass. 
Sept. 19—Aberdeen-Angus. American 
Aberdeen-Angus Association, Springfield, 
Mass. 
Sept. 19—Second annual consignment 
sale of purebred swine. Berks County 
Live Stock Breeders’ Association, New 
Fair Grounds, Reading, Pa. 
Oct. 2—Imported Guernseys. F. S. 
Peer. Cranford, N. ,T. 
Oct. 0-8—Holsteins. Quality Ilolsteins, 
Chicago, Ill. 
Oct. 8—Blair Co., Pa., Holstein Breed¬ 
ers’ Association, Consignment Sale, Fair 
Grounds, Altoona, Pa. 
Oct. 8-9—Holsteins. Annual Dairy¬ 
men's Sale. E. M. Hastings Co., Laeona, 
N. Y., manager. 
Oct. 9—Central Illinois Shorthorn 
Breeders’ Association, Paris, Ill. 
Oct. 13—New York State Guernsey 
Breeders’ Consignment Sale, Fernbrook 
Farm, Menands Road, Albany, N. Y. 
Oct. 15— Guernseys. Mrs. E. W. 
Strawbridge Broph.v, Moorestown, N. J. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Vegetable Growers of America, annual 
convention, Detroit, Mich., Sept. 9-13. 
Eastern States Exposition. Eastern 
Berkshire Congress, Springfield, Mass., 
Sept. 15-19. 
Windsor County Agricultural Society, 
seventy-fourth annual fair, Woodstock, 
Vt., Sept. 1(5-18. 
Union Agricultural Association, sixty- 
fourth annual fair, Burgettstown, Pa., 
Sept. 4 30—Oct. 1-12. 
New England Fruit Show, with Rhode 
Island Fruit Growers’ Association, Elks 
Auditorium, Providence, R. I., Nov. 10-13. 
National Grange, annual meeting, 
Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 12. 
Greater Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, 
Dec. 3-8. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, Atlantic City, Dec. 
1-3. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Roanoke. Dec. 2-4. 
Virginia State Corn Growers, annual 
convention and exhibit, Roanoke, Va., 
Dec. 2-4. 
National Farmers’ Exposition and Ohio 
Apple Show, Terminal Auditorium, To¬ 
ledo, O., Dec. 4-12. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, thirty- 
fourth annual meeting, Chestertown, Md., 
Jan. fi-S, 1920. 
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