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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
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$485 
was 695; now 
595 
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595 
was 1000; now 
850 
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Trices f. o. b. Toledo Include Electric 
Starter, Lights, Horn, Speedometer, De¬ 
mountable Rims, all Steel Touring Body 
with Baked Enamel Finish. 
^Wire Wheels standard equipment. 
WILLYS-OVERLAND, Inc. 
TOLEDO, OHIO 
When you zvrite advertisers mention The R. N .- Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a "square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
DOMESTIC.—Captain Giuseppe Sehi- 
aflino and 20 men of the Italian freighter 
Alaerita. which foundered in a hurricane 
at sea September 30. reached New York 
September 25 on board the Spanish cargo 
ship Cabo Cruex. They had been trying 
to reach the coast in an open boat with¬ 
out drinking water or supplies. The 
Alaerita left Norfolk September S with a 
cargo of grain for Spain. When the 
storm struck the ship was 65 miles off 
Bermuda. 
One hundred aliens manning the Ship¬ 
ping Board’s fleet laid up at Camp Eustis, 
Norfolk, Va., were discharged September 
and their places will be taken by 
American citizens. Ex-service men will 
be given the preference. A fleet of 320 
vessels is tied up at the Camp Eustis 
wharfs in units of 10. Each unit has 
aboard a skeleton crew. 
John Karnshitz, 33 years old. 
aeronaut, broke his back* September 
when be tried to descend from a le 
balloon while making an exhibition 
cent at Hillside Park, Newark. X. 
using a parachute which failed to open. 
September 26 three armed bandits at¬ 
tacked a railroad employee carrying a 
satchel containing $75,000 in a corridor 
of the Grand Central Terminal. New 
York City. The messenger and his guard 
were both shot, 18 shots being tired, en¬ 
dangering many persons in the corridor. 
One of the bandits was captured, while 
two escaped. During the same day there 
were eight other raids by armed bandits 
in Now York City. 
Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll. mother of the 
convicted army draft dodgers, Grover C. 
and Erwin Bergdoll, September 20 filed 
suit in Federal Court, at Philadelphia to 
have Thomas W. Miller, Alien Property 
Custodian, return to her certain property 
seized by him some months ago as be¬ 
longing to Grover. She contends her son 
has no interest in any of it. 
Secret Service agents of the Govern¬ 
ment have been ordered to make priso¬ 
ners of police officers and patrolmen ac¬ 
cused of being plotters in Chicago’s 
liquor- scandals. It is asserted that 
nolice patrol wagons loaded with illicit 
liquor were used in the Grand Crossing 
Station district to insure the safe de¬ 
livery of liquor to saloon keepers at a 
charge of $5 a case for protection. The 
patrol wagon would he sent over its 
route, according to the information, after 
police salesmen had contracted for the 
sale of the whiskey. One of the wit¬ 
nesses stated that members of the police 
force, organized in hands, would obtain 
information as to whiskey shipments 
from other cities into Chicago and then, 
in uniform, would rob the cars in freight 
yards under the pretense of confiscating 
the liquor. The whiskey was then sold 
at fairly cheap bootlegging prices, the 
cheapness making it easy to get customers 
to take it in case lots. When the liquor 
was delivered, however, a policeman ap¬ 
peared and demanded a substantial 
amount from the recipient for protection. 
After the sum had been paid other police¬ 
men would raid the place and, after col¬ 
lecting another protection fee, would 
“confiscate” the liquor, resell and repeat 
the process of graft, sometimes half a 
dozen times, before turning the whiskey 
over to a favored saloonkeeper for sale 
by the drink at ‘high prices. 
John Crabtree, a broker who had an 
office in 140 Broadway, New York, 
pleaded guilty September 26 to an indict¬ 
ment charging him with grand larceny 
two counts, totalling $12,000, before 
Judge Mulqueen in General Sessions. 
Crabtree, it was alleged in papers at¬ 
tached to the indictment, swindled Prof. 
William B. Lindsay of 230 West Fifty- 
ninth Street out of $20,000 since March. 
1020. Prof. Lindsay formerly held a 
chair at Dickinson College, retiring sev¬ 
eral year? ago on a Carnegie pension. 
The money, it is said, represented his life 
hgs. Prof. Lindsay was induced to 
part with his money to obtain control of 
certain coal lands in West Virginia, 
which Crabtree told him were wanted by 
a syndicate of New York financiers, to 
whom they could be sold at a large profit. 
One man is dead and three are injured 
as a result of an explosion in the Harri¬ 
son radiator plant at Lockport, N. Y.. 
September 26. 
Opening of an inner torpedo door while 
the outboard shutter was opened and fail¬ 
ure of an interlocking device to operate 
caused the sinking September 27 of the 
Navy, submarine R-6 with loss of two 
lives in San Pedro harbor, near Los An¬ 
geles. Cal. J. E. D'reffein of San Pedro 
was drowned when thrown from the con¬ 
ning tower of the sinking submarine and 
Frank O. Spaulsburg of Powers Latte, 
N. D., was trapped in the engulfed craft. 
Both were seamen on the R-6. 
An attempt of the “Russian Socialist 
Federated Soviet Republic” and Ludwig 
C. A. K. Martens, agent and representa¬ 
tive. to obtain possession of the steam¬ 
ships Penza and Tobolsk, of the Russian 
Volunteer Fleet, formerly owned by the 
Kerensky government of Russia, was 
blocked September 27 in the United 
States Court. Brooklyn. Judge Martin 
T. Manton held that refusal of the United 
States to recognize the Soviet govern¬ 
ment deprived the complainants of any 
October S, 1021 
standing in courts of the United States. 
In sentencing William B. Davis, inter¬ 
national crook, to eight years in Sing 
Sing September 27 for robbing Edward 
Gerard of Baldwin, L. I., of $3,500 worth 
of Liberty bonds last July, Judge Smith, 
in Nassau County Court, explained t<> 
the prisoner he had no hope for the lat¬ 
ter’s reform, but was locking him up “be¬ 
cause you are a menace to society.” 
When Davis has completed his prison 
term he will be served with a Federal 
warrant. It is alleged that while a lieu¬ 
tenant in the 33d Ohio Infantry at Fort 
Benjamin Harrison, in 1918, he deserted. 
Davis was first sentenced to prison 14 
years ago, when he was sent to the El¬ 
mira Reformatory. He has since served 
terms in Sing Sing and the Bow Street 
Jail, England. 
What is.believed to he the skeleton of 
a prehistoric diplodocus was dug up Sep¬ 
tember 27 by workmen employed on the 
Jefferson Highway, 10 miles south of 
! ort Scott, Kan. Engineers have re¬ 
quested representatives of the Kansas 
University to take and preserve it. The 
fossil was identified from the large ribs 
and pelvic hones and the vertebrae show¬ 
ing the huge spikes which formed one of 
the monster’s weapons of defence. 
The Ohio State University at Colum¬ 
bus lias been holding a successful apple 
show for a number of years, but last year 
this was combined with other features to 
make a horticultural festival. This in¬ 
cludes displays of apples, vegetables, by¬ 
products, forestry, landscape architecture 
and Chrysanthemums. The time for hold¬ 
ing the festival will he November 3, 4 
and 5,. which will be when the flowers are 
at their best. The event is controlled and 
operated exclusively by students of the 
Department of Horticulture with the ob¬ 
ject of creating interest among students 
and growers in the production of first- 
class fruits, vegetables and flowers. 
WASHINGTON.—Fewer than 3,500.- 
900 are out of employment, Secretary 
Hoover’s latest survey of the industrial 
situation disclosed September 27 at the 
unemployment Conference. This was 
about 40 per cent less of idleness than 
was indicated earlier by figures submitted 
to_Congress by Secretary Davis. He said 
5.760,000 had lost their work since the 
Peak of war employment. Mr. Hoover’s 
figures are based on reports of mayors of 
cities with a population of 10,000 or 
more. 
A new means of prohibition evasion 
has been discovered in the form of bogus 
wholesale drug firms, prohibition officials 
said September 27. As a result of E. C. 
Yellowley’s crusade against fraudulent 
permits in New York City, prohibition 
a vents discovered a firm which provided 
all the properties for setting up a spur¬ 
ious drug, store. This firm provided fit¬ 
tings, equipment, window displays and all 
(lie appurtenances of a thriving phar¬ 
macy for a fee of $19,000. The prohibi¬ 
tion officials detected 11 such “drug 
stores” in New York City alone. The 
firm which plants the stores is under¬ 
stood to have a capital of from $50,000 
to $100,000. 
Criminal indictments against more 
than 300.000 persons now are awaiting 
trial in Federal courts. Criminal cases 
pending in State courts are piling up in 
proportions approximately three times as 
fast as in Federal courts. Crime is on 
the increase throughout the United 
States, Government reports show, at a 
rate never before equalled. Two phases 
of the situation, force attention from Fed¬ 
eral officials aside from the large increase 
in crime. First-, a majority of those ar¬ 
rested and indicted are comparatively 
youthful. Second, a growing number of 
women are engaging in crime. 
STATEMENT ^OP THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGE¬ 
MENT, CIRCULATION, Etc.. Required by the 
Act of Congress of August 24. 1912, of THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, published xvecklv at New 
York, N. Y., for October 1, 1921. 
State of New York, 
County of New York, i£ ' • 
Before pie, a Notary Public in and for the State 
and county aforesaid, personally appeared John ,1. 
Dillon, who, having been duly sworn according to 
,»^ e -!u 0ses ,> an<1 , s A ys ‘hat he is the business i.iaim- 
ter of pile Rural New-Yorker and that, the following 
is, to the best of bis knowledge and belief, a true 
statement of the ownership, management (and if a 
Ration), etc., of the aforesaid 
publication for the date shown in the above caption 
T> le . A , ct T 0f August 24. 1912, embodied in 
section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on 
the reverse of this form, to-wit: 
1. That the names and addresses of the publisher. 
JL managing editor, and business managers are: 
1 ublisber: The Rural Publishing Company, 333 West 
30th Street, New York. N. Y 
Editor: Herbert W. Collingwood, Woodcliff Lake 
New Jersey. 
Managing Editor: Herbert W. Collingwood. WoodellfT 
Lake, New Jersey. 
Business Manager: John J. Dillon, 404 Riverside 
Drive, New York, N. Y. 
2. That the owners are: 
The Rural Publishing Company, 333 West 30th St. 
New York. N. Y. 
•Tohn J. Dillon. 404 Riverside Drive, New York, N. Y. 
William F. Dillon. New Rochelle. N. Y. 
Herbert W. Collingwood. Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. 
3. There are no bondholders, mortgagees, or other 
security holders. 
4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the 
names of the owners, stockholders, and security hold 
crs. if any. contain not only the list of stockholders 
and security holders as they appear upon the books of 
tlie company, but also, in cases where the stockholder 
or security holder appears upon the books of tlie 
company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, 
tlie name of the person eir corporation for whom such 
trustee is acting, is given: also that the said two 
paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full 
knowledge and belief as to the circumstances anti con¬ 
ditions under which stockholders and security holders 
who do not appear upon the books of the company as 
trusteea. hold stock and securities in a capacity othei 
than that of a bona fide owner: and this affiant, has 
no reason to believe that any other person, assnein 
tion, or corporation lias any Interest, direct or indi¬ 
rect. in the said stock, bonds or other securities than 
as so stated by him. 
JOHN .T, DILLON, Business Manager. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2Gtli day of 
September. 1921. 
WILLIAM A. I ROSBY, ISeal.] 
Notary Public, N, Y. Co., 19S. 
(My commission cxpiies March 30, 1022.) 
