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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Five persons, four of 
them women, lost their lives in New 
York December 2 in a fire which de¬ 
stroyed the two upper floors of an old- 
fashioned dwelling at 29 West .77 th 
Street All of the victims were burned to 
death after being overcome by smoke. 
The building had no fire escapes. 
Indictments for conspiracy to defraud 
the Shipping Board were returned De¬ 
cember 3 against the following by the 
United States Grand Jury in Philadel¬ 
phia : William Burlingham, a former 
employee of the board ; Ralph Lovell, 
William M. Dobson, W. J. Dubree and 
George McCann, Jr., formerly connected 
with the Marine Docking and Supply 
Company o f Philadelphia. The men were 
charged with conspiring to supply in¬ 
ferior material at Hog Island. The sum 
involved, according to the indictment, 
was ,$30,000. 
After deliberating five hours a jury 
in Syracuse, N. Y., County Court before 
Judge J. J. Barrett returned Dec. ,3 a 
verdict of guilty against Robert Morris, 
descendant of the financier of the American 
Revolution, and who has been on trial 
on charges of larceny involving the loss 
of $.3.3,500 intrusted to him for investment 
by aged Miss Jennie Nixon of Syracuse. 
Morris admitted receiving the money, but 
said ho was empowered to invest it as 
he saw fit. He speculated in oil and 
played the market on margin, losing not 
only all of Miss Nixon’s money, but all 
of bis own. 
William S. Brewer, director of an 
organization to which lie has given the 
name of the Ex-Service Men’s Co-opera¬ 
tive League and publisher of a magazine 
which he calls The A. E. F. or Fun in 
France, was indicted Dec. .3 by a New 
York Federal Grand Jury on a charge 
of using the mails to defraud. For the 
last several months salesmen dressed in 
a uniform closely resembling that of the 
United States Army have been selling 
Brewer’s magazine in subway trains and 
on the streets. The indictment against 
Brewer charges that few of his salesmen 
ever saw army service, and that no soldier 
ever benefited to the extent of a penny 
from the sale of the magazine. The in¬ 
dictment. after setting forth that the 
Ex-Service Men’s Co-operative League 
is Brewer’s personally controlled organi¬ 
zation, alleges that he issued and circu¬ 
lated through the mails pamphlets and 
letters which made misrepresentations 
and brought him in money. These letters 
and pamphlets solicited contributions for 
the benefit of ill. and crippled soldiers 
and sailors. The indictment charges that 
Brewer kept all the money himself ex¬ 
cept what lie paid in commissions to the 
imitation soldiers he employed as solici¬ 
tors and salesmen. 
The ninth school building within a 
radius of five miles to be destroyed by 
fire within six weeks was burned Dec 5 
at Star Junction. Pa. The value of the 
building was $100,000 and it accomo¬ 
dated 700 pupils. Members of the State 
Constabulary stated the fire was of in¬ 
cendiary origin. 
Between fifty and one hundred high 
explosive shells stored on the deck of 
the army lighter Amaoksou exploded Dec. 
5 after fire had started in the hold of 
the boat as she lay tied to the Govern¬ 
ment pier at the foot of Fort Hamilton 
Parkway, on the northwest corner of the 
Fort Hamilton military reservation in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Fifty explosion's oc¬ 
curred within 15 minutes, and when the 
noise and excitement had subsided the 
police and army authorities found that 
at least 10 persons bad been injured and 
that damage estimated at several thou¬ 
sand dollars had been done to nearby 
residences, which were perforated by shell 
fragments. 
Twenty young men who claimed exemp¬ 
tion from military service during the war 
on the grounds that they were aliens were 
denied citizenship Dec. 7 by Supreme 
Court Justice Tierney in the Bronx. New 
York. . “If you were not willing to fight 
for this country.” said Justice Tierney, 
“you are not entitled to enjoy citizenship 
in it.” 
The State Bank of Loraine, Renville 
County, N. D., closed Dec. 7. due to de¬ 
pleted reserves, according to word received 
at the State Bank Examiner’s office at 
Bismarck. This makes 2.3 State and one 
national hank to dose in less than a 
month. 
An agreement previously ratified by the 
Brick Masons and Plasterer’s Internation¬ 
al Union providing that there shall be no 
cessation of work pending adjustment, of 
disputes, was adopted by the Mason Con¬ 
tractors’ Association of the United States 
and Canada, in convention at Detroit, 
Dec. 7. 
John Willers, thirty years old, of 894 
Riverside Drive, New York, who served 
during the war as a captain of Company 
I, 48th United States Infantry, confessed 
Dec. 7 at the East Fifty-first Street 
police- station that he had been sent to 
the United States by the German govern¬ 
ment in 1914 as a spy. He was locked 
up at Castle William, Governor’s Island, 
after being turned over to the Government 
authorities. lie said that he was one 
of 300 imperial German cadets sent to 
this country for spy work. It was his 
purpose, he said, to reach France and 
then betray his regiment at. the front, so 
that his entire command would be wiped 
out. He told detectives that they would 
be surprised if they knew the number of 
high officers who served at Washington 
December IS, 10 C 0 
during the war, who were .in reality in 
the employ of the German government. 
Government action in the case of Rose 
Pastor Stokes will be put off until next. 
March and possibly forever, it was stated 
Dec. 7 at Washington. Some mysterious 
circumstance is delaying action by the 
Department of Justice looking to a retrial 
of the case. Mrs. Stokes was convicted 
of violation of the Espionage Act by the 
United States District Court of Kansas 
City, Mo., and senenced to 10 yearn’ im¬ 
prisonment. Appeal was taken and the 
Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the 
judgment of the lower court. The then 
District Attorney at Kansas City moved 
for a new trial, noting exception to the 
instructions of Judge Arba S. Van Val- 
kenburgh of the Appeals Court, contend¬ 
ing that his instructions were respon¬ 
sible for the verdict. District Attorneys 
have changed twice in Kansas City since 
that time, but no new motion has beev 
made for setting a new trial. Meantime 
Mrs. Stokes is out on bail. 
American aircraft manufacturers suc¬ 
ceeded Dec. 7 in obtaining a preliminary 
injunction restraining British interests 
from unloading in the United States 
thousands of surplus British war planes 
at prices so low as to preclude competition. 
The Ilandley-Page and Aircraft Disposal 
companies, which bought 10.000 aero¬ 
planes from the British army for an 
amount reputed to be 1 per cent, of their 
cost, were about to export 2.365 planes 
to this country to be sold at less than 
$3,000 each. American manufacturers 
asserted this would ruin the industry as 
well as flood the United States with an 
obsolete type of battle plane inferior to 
those being built at home for peace pur¬ 
poses. The injunction was granted to 
the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 
owner of the American patent for heavier 
than air flying machines, bv Judge Julius 
M. Mayer, in the United States District 
Court, on the ground that the British 
planes infringe the Wright patent. 
TV ASHINGTON.—Tentative approval 
was given December 2 by members of the 
House Immigration Committee to the bill 
framed by Representative Johnson of 
W ashington,. chairman of the committee, 
which practically would suspend immi¬ 
gration for a two-year period. 
Simplified spelling has been abolished 
in the navy by an order from Secretary 
Daniels, which was made public here 
December ,3. The order rescinds one is¬ 
sued in 1905 providing for the use of 
thru” for “through” and other simplified 
forms. 
Shipping men and others interested in 
the rebirth of the American merchant 
marine are alarmed over the probable en¬ 
forcement on the high seas of the 
Eighteenth Amendment on passenger car¬ 
riers . and almost unanimously declare 
that it will make it impossible for Yan¬ 
kee liners to compete with foreign vessels 
in the effort to keep the flag in the trans¬ 
atlantic trade. The apprehension, which 
is general in the offices of American 
steamship companies in New York, is in¬ 
spired by the opinion of Solicitor-General 
W llliam L. Frierson, who, as Acting At¬ 
torney-General of the United States, de¬ 
clared recently in a communication to 
the Secretary of the Treasury that Amer¬ 
ican ships were “constructive territory of 
the United States” wherever tliev mav 
be. 
The Nobel peace prize will be conferred 
on President Wilson December 10. The 
ceremony will take place, as usual, in the 
Norwegian Storthing, which awards the 
prize. The Nobel peace prize carries 
}vith it a grant.of about $40,000. which 
is one-fifth of the annual interest on 
about $9,000,000 left for that purpose by 
Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish scientist 
and inventor of dynamite, who died iu 
1S96. 
Immediate independence of the Philip¬ 
pines, a large loan to Armenia and strict 
economy in appropriations were the three 
chief, recommendations of President Wil¬ 
son in his formal message to Congress 
December 7. He made no mention of the 
peace treaty. 
FARM AND GARDEN. — Recruits 
who enlist in the United States Army for 
a course on farming are sent to the voca¬ 
tional school of agriculture at Camp 
Travis. Texas. Courses are provided in 
horticulture, agronomy, dairying and ani¬ 
mal husbandry. A large irrigated farm 
was purchased by the Government and 
will be used iu converting the soldier- 
students into scientific farmers. 
Five thousand acres will be planted in 
tomatoes in east Texas counties during 
the coming season, according to a survey 
made by Walton Peteet, agricultural 
manager of the Texas Chamber of Com¬ 
merce. based upon reports of growers 
from the 27 chief shipping points. Un¬ 
der ordinary crop conditions 5,000 acres 
will produce 1,700 carloads of tomatoes 
and bring about $1,750,000. 
The Texas Tomato Growers’ Exchange, 
fashioned after the California Fruit 
Growers’ Association, was formed at a 
meeting at Jacksonville, Tex., which was 
attended by representatives of 27 tomato 
shipping points of east Texas. The meet¬ 
ing was called as a result of a conference 
between agricultural agents of the Cotton 
Belt Railroad, the A. and M. College and 
the Texas Chamber of Commerce. 
The annual meeting of the New York 
State Jersey Cattle Club was hold in the 
Onondaga Hotel, Syracuse, N. Y., Decem¬ 
ber 10-17. The New York State Breeders’ 
Association meets at the same place De¬ 
cember 15, continuing three days. The 
Jersey Club has had a large increase in 
membership during the past year. 
