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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC  —  Three  recent  railroad 
accidents  were  due  to  malicious  tamper¬ 
ing  with  railroad  switches,  according  to 
reports  filed  December  29  with  the  Inter¬ 
state  Commerce  Commission  by  its  safety 
inspectors.  A  Santa  Fe  wreck  at  Landco. 
Cal.,  in  which,  tlnee  were  killed  and  13 
injured,  was  caused  by  a  switch  having 
been  opened  wicn  malicious  intent.  A 
freight  train  derailed  on  the  Great  North¬ 
ern  Railway  at  Andover.  Minn..  Novem¬ 
ber  26,  was  ditched  from  a  similar  cause. 
The  wreck  November  24  on  the  Texas  & 
Pacific  Railway  at  Mack’s,  in  which  one 
person  was  killed  and  31  injured,  was 
caused  by  a  discharged  negro  track  la¬ 
borer.  who  deliberately  opened  the  switch. 
Owners  of  automobiles  are  entitled  to 
damages  from  insurance  companies  for 
wear  and  tear  on  cars  while  in  the  hands 
of  thieves  under  a  decision  handed  down 
December  30  by  the  Appellate  Division  of 
the  Supreme  Court  in  Brooklyn.  The 
ruling  was  made  in  the  case  of  Mrs. 
Loretta  J.  Edwards  of  Hempstead.  L.  I.. 
whose  car  was  stolen  and  driven  2,500 
miles  before  it  was  recovered  in  North 
Carolina. 
Benedict  Crowell,  former  Assistant 
Secretary  of  War.  and  six  other  war-time 
officials  of  the  War  Department  were 
charged  December  30  in  an  indictment 
returned  by  a  special  Federal  Grand  Jury 
at  Washington  with  conspiracy  to  defraud 
the  Government  and  with  delaying  and 
defeating  the  administration  of  law.  The 
seven  defendants  were  said  by  the  jury 
to  have  participated  unlawfully  in  the 
award  of  contracts  let  by  the  Govern¬ 
ment  during  the  war  and  after  the  armis¬ 
tice,  involving  expenditures  totaling  hun¬ 
dreds  of  millions  of  dollars,  in  which 
some  of  their  number  had  a  pecuniary 
interest. 
Gas  escaping  from  a  kitchen  heater 
took  four  lives  December  30.  Frank  Car- 
razza,  his  wife,  Mary,  and  their  two 
children,  Joseph  and  Muriel,  were  found 
dead  in  the  bedroom  of  their  three-room 
tenement  at  50  Milford  street.  East  New 
York.  Apparently  some  one  had  turned 
on  the  gas  in  the  heater  and  had  been 
deceived  by  a  flareback  into  thinking  that 
it  was  burning. 
Francis  R.  Stoddard,  Jr.,  State  Super¬ 
intendent  of  Insurance,  has  levied  upon 
the  policyholders  of  the  Motor  Car  Mu¬ 
tual  Fire  Insurance  Company  as  assess¬ 
ment  of  52  per  cent  of  the  premiums 
written  in  their  policies,  and  has  called 
10  per  cent  for  immediate  payment  for 
the  purpose  of  paying  100  per  cent  of  all 
debts  and  winding  up  the  affairs  of  the 
company.  The  Motor  Car  Mutual  Fire 
Insurance  Company  was  organized  and 
incorporated  under  Article  10-A  of  the  in¬ 
surance  law  of  New  York,  permitting  a 
thousand  or  more  -persons  owning  auto¬ 
mobiles  to  organize  a  mutual  company 
upon  the  assessment  plan.  The  company 
commenced  business  on  April  18,  1919, 
and  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  the 
Superintendent  of  Insurance  for  liquida¬ 
tion  on  March  7.  1922.  by  an  order  of 
the  Supreme  Court  made  by  Judge  New- 
burger  upon  an  application  of  the  Su¬ 
perintendent  of  Insurance,  from  which  it 
appeared  the  company  was  insolvent  and 
that  it  and  a  companion  company  had 
been  organized  by  two  promotei’s  for  the 
purpose  of  making  profits  for  themselves, 
and  that  the  affairs  of  the  companies 
had  been  conducted  with  that  purpose 
paramount  in  mind. 
WASHINGTON— Secretary  Albert  B. 
Fall  of  the  Interior  Department  will  re- 
tire  from  office  March  4.  it  was  announced 
January  2  at  the  White  House.  He  will 
return  to  the  pi’actice  of  law  and  the 
conduct  of  personal  business  affairs  in 
New  Mexico. 
Property  to  the  value  of  $318,000,000 
remained  in  the  hands  of  the  Alien  Prop¬ 
erty  Custodian  on  November  30,  1922, 
accoi’ding  to  the  annual  report  of  Thomas 
W.  Miller,  the  Custodian.  The  passage 
of  the  Winslow  bill,  which  would  author¬ 
ize  the  return  of  all  trusts  to  the  value  of 
$10,000  and  under,  was  again  recom¬ 
mended  by  Mr.  Miller,  who  estimated 
that  this  legislation  would  affect  only 
$44,000,000.  and  would  leave  in  the  hands 
of  the  Government  adequate  sums  to  pro¬ 
vide  for  settlement  of  claims  of  American 
citizens  against  former  enemy  govern¬ 
ments. 
Control  must  be  established  over  the 
bedlam  tilling  the  air  from  21,000  radio 
transmitting  stations,  Secretary  Hoover 
of  the  Commerce  Department  told  the 
House  Merchant  Marine  Committee  Jan¬ 
uary  2  at  hearings  on  the  Kellogg- White 
Federal  radio  control  bill.  Representa¬ 
tives  of  amateurs  and  various  others  in¬ 
terested  in  wii’eless  communication  also 
were  heai-d  by  the  committee.  The  bill 
provides  that  the  Commerce  Department 
shall  have  supei-vision  over  all  l-adio  com¬ 
munication,  assigning  wave  lengths,  ap- 
pi’oving  apparatus,  licensing  operators 
and  otherwise  supei-vising  wireless  com¬ 
munication  to  bring  order  out  of  the 
present  chaos  of  jazz  bands,  sermons, 
crop  reports,  sporting  events,  concerts 
and  what-not  running  simultaneously  on 
the  same  wave  lengths.  Vigoi’ous  protest 
was  entered  by  the  War  and  Navy  De¬ 
partments  against  a  provision  of  the  bill 
which  stipulates  that  whenever  Govern¬ 
ment  apparatus  is  used  for  other  than 
Government  business  it  shall  come  under 
supervision  of  the  Commerce  Department. 
The  Navy,  l-epresented  by  Rear  Admiral 
Ziegemeier.  protested  that  navy  opei’ators 
in  many  cases  would  have  to  obtain  a 
license  from  the  Commei’ce  Department 
if  the  section  was  retained. 
In  oi’der  to  keep  the  first  line  of  fc'ne 
American  navy  on  a  par  with  the  sea 
forces  of  the  other  great  powers.  Presi¬ 
dent  Harding  December  30  asked  Con¬ 
gress  for  a  special  appi’opraition  of 
$6,500,000  as  a  beginning  on  a  battleship 
modernization  program.  The  plan  behind 
the  request  marks  a  change  of  policy  re¬ 
sulting  directly  from  the  Washington 
arms  conference,  and  was  described  by 
Seci’etary  Denby  in  a  letter  accompany¬ 
ing  the  President’s  recommendation  as 
of  “major  and  vital  importance”  in  na¬ 
tional  defense.  Prior  to  the  confei-ence 
it  had  been  the  practice  to  build  new 
ships  rather  than  modernize  old  ones,  a 
policy  which  no  longer  can  be  followed 
because  of  the  construction  limitations 
imposed  by  the  naval  limitation  treaty. 
Secretary  Denby  reported  that  a  detailed 
study  of  the  problem  had  been  made  bj 
naval  officers  and  that  the  $6,500,000 
would  make  it  possible  to  begin  work  on 
13  vessels.  Ultimately,  he  estimated,  the 
pi’Ogram  would  cost  a  total  of  $30,000,000. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN  —  Japanese 
farmers  in  California  are  planning  to 
quit  the  State  and  establish  themselves 
in  Mexico,  accoi’ding  to  a  story  in  the 
Los  Angeles  Times.  The  Times  says  it 
is  "able  to  announce  that  negotiations” 
for  the  removal  of  “the  entire  Japanese 
agricultui-al  colony  in  Califoimia”  already 
“have  been  taken  up  with  the  Mexican 
Government.” 
A  Department  of  Agriculture  bulletin 
states  that  a  rodent  drive  in  Hat  Creek 
community,  Niobrara  County,  Wyoming, 
recently  resulted  in  about  half  the  co- 
operators  ridding  their  land  of  every 
prairie  dog,  while  each  of  the  others  had, 
at  the  time  of  reporting,  but  four  or  five 
live  rodents  left.  Not  100  live  prairie 
dogs,  it  is  estimated,  are  left  on  this  area 
of  about  25.000  acres,  which  was  literally 
alive  with  them  six  months  ago.  The 
work  was  started  in  April  on  a  strip  of 
land  13  miles  long  and  three  miles  wide, 
with  22  ranchers  co-operating.  Prac¬ 
tically  evei’y  man  in  the  district  signed 
up  to  do  his  share  of  the  poisoning.  The 
county  appropriated  money  to  be  used  in 
purchasing  poison  for  the  State  and  non¬ 
resident  lands,  the  Biological  Survey  fur¬ 
nished  poison  for  the  Federal  land,  and 
labor  was  donated  by  interested  residents. 
The  thirty-fifth  annual  convention  of 
the  New  York  State  Association  of 
County  Agricultural  Fair  Societies  will 
be  held  in  the  new  courthouse  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  Thursday,  January  18.  with  morn¬ 
ing  and  afternoon  sessions.  In  the  even¬ 
ing  the  annual  dinner  will  be  held  in  the 
Hotel  Hampton. 
J.  Dan  Ackerman  of  Syracuse  was  re- 
appointed  secretary  of  the  New  York 
State  Fair  Commission  January  2  at  a 
meeting  of  that  body  in  the  offices  of 
Lieutenant  Governor  George  R.  Lunn, 
the  president  ex-officio.  The  new  ap¬ 
pointments  were  Edward  Shanahan  of 
Syracuse,  treasurer ;  Dennis  N.  Dwyer  of 
Syracuse,  superintendent  of  grounds,  and 
Claude  B.  Fletcher  of  Watei’town,  x*acing 
secretary.  It  was  decided  to  hold  the 
State  Fair  at  Syracuse  the  week  of  Sep¬ 
tember  10  to  15,  inclusive. 
A  further  concentration  of  scientific 
and  educational  foi’ces  to  combat  the 
boll  weevil  in  the  South  was  indicated 
in  a  telegram  received  January  2  by  Di\ 
Miller  Reese  Hutchison,  foi’mei’ly  chief 
engineer  for  Thomas  A.  Edison,  from 
the  American  Cotton  Association  at  At¬ 
lanta,  informing  him  that  he  had  been 
selected  as  managing  director  of  the  boll 
weevil  control  bureau  of  the  association. 
Dr.  Hutchison  said  that  the  association 
planned  a  comprehensive  campaign 
against  the  “billion-dollar  bug,”  includ¬ 
ing  experiments  and  dissemination  of  in¬ 
formation  to  cotton  growers.  His  major 
efforts,  he  declared,  would  be  concentrated 
on  the  calcium  arsenate  poisoning  method 
of  control.  The  reported  shortage  of 
this  material  would  be  lessened  by  the 
exploitation  of  a  newly  discovered  “moun¬ 
tain  of  white  arsenic”  in  Utah,  Dr. 
Hutchison  asserted. 
THE  COAL  INDUSTRY— The  United 
Mine  Workers  of  America  will  present 
to  the  United  States  Coal  Commission 
shortly  a  plan  for  the  nationalization  of 
the  coal  mining  industry,  which  provides 
for  the  purchase  by  the  Government  of 
the  entire  industry  at  a  cost  of  $4,500.- 
000,000,  the  creation  of  a  secretary  of 
mines  in  the  President’s  Cabinet,  and 
the  organization  of  a  Federal  commis¬ 
sion  of  mines  and  a  national  mining  coun¬ 
cil.  The  plan  will  be  embodied  in  a  re¬ 
port  of  the  nationalization  committee  of 
the  mine  workers,  Avhic-h  has  been  consid¬ 
ering  the  question  since  the  miners’  con¬ 
vention  in  1921.  The  report  will  advo¬ 
cate  that  the  commission  of  mines  con¬ 
trol  the  budget  and  policy  of  the  coal  in¬ 
dustry  on  the  basis  of  a  continual  fact 
finding,  and  that  the  national  mining 
council  administer  policies,  with  miners, 
technicians  and  consumers  represented. 
Collective  bargaining  will  be  safeguarded 
and  assured  under  the  plan  of  the  miners 
by  joint  conference  with  an  independent 
wage-scale  committee.  This,  the  report 
contends,  will  free  production  manage¬ 
ment  from  wage  squabbles  and  scale  prob¬ 
lems  by  making  wages  the  first  charge 
against  the  industry.  The  committee  dis¬ 
claims  any  interest  on  the  part  of  the 
Ami  rican  worker  in  socialistic  activity  or 
propaganda,  and  declaims  against  any 
control  of  the  mines  by  politicians.  It 
suggests  that  the  membership  of  the  Com¬ 
mission  of  Mines  be  limited  to  11,  five  to 
be  named  by  professional  societies,  such 
as  the  engineer  groups,  and  the  others  to 
’  named  by  the  President. 
