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<Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 12, 1924 
Complete water service 
One Milwaukee Air Power 
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shown in the illustration, to 
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Milwaukee, Wis. 
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BOLENS POWER HOE 
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The Farmer 
His Own 
Builder 
BY 
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A practical and handy 
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THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—A truck owned by the 
Lorillard Tobacco Company of Jersey 
City, and loaded with $20,000 worth of 
tobacco and cigarettes was held up at 
Thirty-sixth Street and First Avenue, 
New York, in daylight, December 29th, 
by bandits, who kidnaped the chauffeur 
and hisi helper, drove them in a touring 
car to" 137th Street and Broadway and 
then removed the tobacco. The empty 
truck was found three hours later at 
Third Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street. 
The bandits are believed to be members 
of a gang that has been operating in that 
vicinity for several months, and which is 
said to have stolen about $100,000 worth 
of silks and woolens in two months. 
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Mor- 
schauser and two other public officials 
have entered a protest against the ap¬ 
plication for a pardon for Joseph Deprizio, 
23, who was sentenced to nineteen years 
in Sing Sing three years ago for robbery 
and assault. Deprizio pleaded guilty to 
an indictment charging him and three 
others with robbing Glenwood Inn at 
West Newburgh, N Y., stabbing Frank 
Garoff, the proprietor, and getting away 
with $20,000 worth of loot. When the 
Orange County authorities were informed 
that the prisoner had asked Governor 
Smith to pardon him, Justice Mor- 
schauser, District Attorney J. D. Wilson, 
Jr., and Chief of Police Gilmore Bush 
of Tuxedo conferred and decided to pre¬ 
sent a united front in opposition to execu¬ 
tive clemency. 
Four persons were killed and a fifth 
probably fatally injured December 29th 
when their automobile was hit by a 
Southern Railway train at. a grade cross¬ 
ing near Aiken, S. C. The dead, three 
men and a woman, were traveling in an 
automobile with New York license 728- 
084, and are believed to have been tourists 
bound for Florida. 
A grandfather and eight of his grand¬ 
children were burned to death December 
31st in the home of Claude Emminger, 
near Tylersburg, in Clarion County, Pa. 
Mrs. Emminger, who was asleep on the 
first floor of the house, was awakened 
by smoke and succeeded in awakening her 
husband and the children’s grandmother, 
Mrs. Mentzer. Her husband got Mrs. 
Mentzer from the building and then made 
several efforts to reach the second floor, 
where the grandfather. Mr. Mentzer, and 
Emminger’s seven children and a nephew, 
Michael McManigle, 14, who was visiting 
them, were asleep. The flames had gained 
such headway that Emminger was unable 
to reach them and all were burned to 
death. 
Damage estimated at close to $1,000,000 
was caused by a fire at the Whiting 
(Ind.) plant of the Standard Oil Com¬ 
pany- of Indiana, 'January 1st. The 
machine shops and boiler works, includ¬ 
ing several buildings and most of the 
machinery in them, were practically de¬ 
stroyed and thirty storage tanks con¬ 
taining about 900,000 gallons of gasoline 
were threatened. 
In a plot which Federal penitentiary 
officials believe was engineered by Ger¬ 
ald Chapman, leader of the $1,000,000 
New York mail robbery gang who escaped 
from the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., 
last April, Chapman’s partner in the mail 
robberies. George Anderson, and three 
other prisoners, tunneled their way to 
freedom, December 30th. Anderson and 
Chapman were leaders of one of the most 
daring gangs of mail robbers known to the 
postal service. Chapman was the leader 
in the Leonard Street mail truck rob¬ 
bery in New York City in which more 
than $1,000,000 was stolen. Chapman 
and Anderson were sentenced to twenty- 
five years each. 
More than thirty outlaw strikes have 
occurred in the hard coal mines since Sep¬ 
tember 19, when work was resumed fol¬ 
lowing the general suspension of opera¬ 
tions pending the negotiation of a new 
wage contract. The general committee of 
anthracite operators in a statement. De¬ 
cember 30th said these strikes involved 
anywhere from 100 to 7.000 mine workers 
and caused a loss in tonnage “suf¬ 
ficient to keep a good sized city warm 
for an entire year.’’ Reasons for the 
strikes, “for the most part,” were de¬ 
clared to have been of a trivial character. 
The Marion County (Ind.) Grand Jury, 
which investigated the financial affairs of 
Governor Warren T. McCray and re¬ 
turned eight indictments against him, 
charging forgery, embezzlement and lar¬ 
ceny, December 29th, returned seven ad¬ 
ditional indictments charging specific in¬ 
stances of these crimes. The indictments 
made no new accusations against the Gov¬ 
ernor. The eight indictments first returned 
against the Governor covered 396 pages, 
and one alone contained ninety-seven 
counts.. The new indictments take from 
each of the original a single count and 
make a separate charge of it. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Petitions for 
writs of mandamus were filed in the 
Fnited States District Court at Chicago, 
December 27th, over the signature of 
Attorney-General Daugherty seeking an 
order compelling the Cudahy _ Packing 
Company. Wilson & Co., and Swift & Co., 
to give the Government access to their 
books and records. The packing com¬ 
panies must answer to the petitions on 
or before January 11. The petitions were 
filed by Bayard T. Hainer in behalf of the 
Secretary of Agriculture, United States 
Attorney Edwin A. Olsen and Assistant 
United States Attorney Charles L. Swan¬ 
son. The petitions allege that on Novem¬ 
ber 23, 1923, the three packing companies 
refused the Secretary of Agriculture ac¬ 
cess to their books. The petitions further 
allege that under the packers and stock- 
yards act the packing companies are com¬ 
pelled by law to give access to their books 
whenever it is demanded by the Secretary 
of Agriculture. 
Within a decade or two, because of the 
exhaustion of forest resources within the 
United States, the tanning and leather in¬ 
dustries of the country are likely to be de¬ 
pendent upon foreign sources for the sup¬ 
ply of tanning extracts without which 
they must fail. This conclusion has been 
reached by special investigators of the 
Commerce Department, after nearly a 
year of work in the inquiry into sources 
of supply of industrial raw materials, au¬ 
thorized by the last Congress, before 
which charges of foreign monopolization 
and price control of rubber and other com¬ 
modities were aired. 
The 1923 lumber production of the 
United States is placed at 38,000,000.000 
feet—the largest since 1916 and enough to 
build 2,000,000 ordinary dwellings—in es¬ 
timates prepared for publication in the 
forthcoming issue of the National Lumber 
Bulletin. The total is 3,000,000,000 feet 
more than was produced in 1922 and is 
only 2,000,000.000 feet under the 1916 
total. The output of Southern pine is 
estimated at 12,000,000,000 feet, while the 
Douglas fir cut is placed at 9,396,944,000. 
More meat was consumed in the United 
States in 1923 than ever before in the 
country’s history, according to a survey 
by the Institute of American Meat Pack¬ 
ers. The increase was held to he due to 
lower prices. It was estimated that the 
production of meat for 1923 would ex¬ 
ceed that of 1922, the year of greatest 
production heretofore, probably by one 
and one-half billion pounds. Exports of 
meat were approximately 30 per cent 
greater than those of last year. 
The Bureau of Animal Industry of the 
Department of Agriculture put into ef¬ 
fect December 29th new quarantine regu¬ 
lations against the importation of hay 
and. straw used as packing materials for 
imports, to protect this country against 
the foot and mouth disease, which is 
causing great losses in Europe, especially 
in Great Brtain. The bureau has writ¬ 
ten the Merchants Association request¬ 
ing aid in having all importers arrange 
with shippers in Europe to sterilize hay 
and straw used as packing material. All 
importers are asked by the Government to 
destroy or fumigate promptly all packing 
material reaching here without a consular 
certificate that fumigation has been car¬ 
ried out on the other side. Sterilization 
may be by live steam or certain pre¬ 
scribed chemicals. The Association will 
advise all its members of the new regula¬ 
tions. Importers in doubt as to the pro¬ 
cedure required are requested to get in 
touch with the New York office of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry at the Custom 
House. 
WASHINGTON.—Here are some of 
the changes from the present tax law as 
provided in the Treasury draft of the new 
revenue act recommended to Congress by 
Secretary Mellon : 
Earned income is defined as wages, sal¬ 
aries and professional fees and gets a 
credit of 25 per cent of the amount of the 
tax attributed to the earned income. 
The normal tax on the first $4,000 of 
net income is fixed at 3 per cent, and upon 
the remainder of the net income at 6 per 
cent. 
The surtax rates begin at 1 per cent 
on net income from $10,000 to $12,000. 
an additional 1 per cent for each $2,000 
of net income up to $36,000, then 1 per 
cent additional for the next $4,000 of 
net income up to $40,000 and then 1 per 
cent additional for each $6,000 of net 
income up to a total of 25 per cent at 
$100,000 and over. 
The tax on telegrams, telephones, leased 
wires and radio is repealed. 
The tax on admissions to theaters, 
movies, etc., is repealed. 
The principle contained in the 1918 
revenue act that liquidating dividends con¬ 
stitutes a sale of the stock instead of a 
distribution of earnings has been restored. 
This puts liquidating dividends within the 
capital gain section of the act and recog¬ 
nizes the real effect of such dividends. 
Government business up to December 
31st, comprising the first half of the cur¬ 
rent fiscal year, will show a suigdus con¬ 
siderably above $100,000,000. This was 
shown by the Treasury’s official figures. 
These figures, up to the close of business 
December 27th, disclose an excess of re¬ 
ceipts over expenditures of $105,701,369. 
Larger revenues from income taxes are 
chiefly responsible for the surplus. At 
the end of the fiscal year, Treasury offi¬ 
cials predicted, the surplus will be more 
than doubled. 
Army ordnance experts have developed 
what they believe to be the heaviest and 
most powerful gun of its type in the 
world. The new weapon is of the 14- 
inch, 50-calibre type, and is a post-war 
development. It is capable of_hurling an 
armor-piercing projective of 1,560 pounds 
for a distance of twenty-three miles and 
can be mounted on wheeled carriages and 
drawn along railroad tracks. 
