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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — I*.  S.  Oakes,  pilot,  and 
William  A  cor,  mechanician,  were  killed 
when  an  air  mail  plane  they  were  testing 
fell  500  feet  at  Cheyenne,  Wye.,  January 
18  and  burst  into  flames.  Oakes  was 
transferred  to  Cheyenne  from  the  New- 
York-Clevelaud  air  mail  division  about 
three  months  ago.  He  was  27  years  old 
and  unmarried. 
1  nontenant  William  H.  Rohrbach,  naval 
pilot,  of  Norfolk.  Ya.,  was  instantly 
killed  and  two  other  naval  officers  were 
seriously  injured  January  18  when  the 
sea  pm  lie  8-5-1 -2  fell  2.000  feet  and  splin- 
tred  to  1  its  on  a  rock  off  Catalina  Island, 
Cal. 
Senator  Benjamin  Antin  of  The  Bronx, 
New  York,  was  run  down  by  an  auto¬ 
mobile  during  the  extraordinary  session 
of  the  Legislature  last  August.  He  was 
in  an  Albany  hospital  for  weeks  and  for 
a  while  liis  death  was  expected.  lie 
brought  a  suit  for  $50,000  against  the 
owner  of  the  car,  but  will  be  unable  to 
get  a  verdict  because  the  owner  testified 
his  son  was  driving  the  car  without  his 
permission.-  To  protect  persons,  who 
might  meet  with  similar  accidents  Sena¬ 
tor  Antin  introduced  a  bill  at  Albany 
January  18  making  the  owner  of  a  car 
responsible  for  damages  or  injuries  when 
the  oar  is  driven  by  another,  lie  de¬ 
clared  the  bill  is  aimed  at  joy  riding 
generally. 
The  Herrin  mine  massacre  jury  re¬ 
turned  a  verdict  at  Marion,  Ill.,  January 
19,  declaring  the  five  defendants  not 
guilty.  The  accused  men,  all  union  min¬ 
ers,  were  charged  with  the  murder  of 
Howard  Hoffman  in  the  Herrin  strike 
riot  last  Summer.  All  of  them  face  a 
second  trial,  in  company  with  eight 
others,  for  the  murder  of  Antonio  Muko- 
vieh.  another  victim  of  the  riots.  The 
mine  riots  occurred  June  21  and  22, 
T922,  and  29  non-union  workers  were 
killed  during  the  disorders.  Subsequently 
a  grand  jury  returned  indictments  against 
77  persons,  charging  48  of  them  with 
murder  and  the  others  with  various  lesser 
offenses.  The  bonds  on  which  most  of 
the  men  were  released  totalled  $22o,000. 
Ten  men  accused  of  operating  the  Com¬ 
munity  Finance  Company,  with  head¬ 
quarters  here  and  branches  in  Baltimore, 
Philadelphia  and  Wilmington,  were  in¬ 
dicted  by  the  Federal  Grand  Jury  Janu¬ 
ary  19,  charged  with  using  the  mails  in 
operating  a  '‘blind  pool”  to  defraud  in¬ 
vestors.  They  are  Austin  Howard  Mont¬ 
gomery,  Jr.,  Austin  Howard  Montgomery, 
Sr.,  Joseph  J.  McDonald,  Henry  L. 
Schwarz,  John  F.  Callan,  Benjamin 
Marks,  Arthur  Meldrum,  Daniel  G.  Glea¬ 
son,  Herman  E.  Netts  and  William  L. 
Cunningham. 
One  man  was  killed  and  18  persons 
were  injured  when  a  three-car  Chicago- 
bound  Aurora  &  Elgin  electric  train  was 
derailed  after  striking  an  automobile  at 
a  crossing  just  outside  Chicago  January 
21.  John  WJoronuk,  the  man  killed,  and 
four  of  the  injured  were  passengers  in 
the  automobile.  The  train  crashed  into 
the  car  with  such  force  that  all  three 
cars,  including  a  heavy  diner,  were 
thrown  from  the  rails  and  plowed  along 
the  ties  for  100  yards  before  plunging 
into  a  ditch. 
Four  men  in  an  automobile  at  noon 
January  23  held  up  Elias  Ginsburg  of 
541  Lincoln  Place,  Brooklyn,  assistant 
manager  of  the  Municipal  Bank,  on  Lin¬ 
coln  Iload.  near  Bedford  Avenue,  Flat- 
bush,  N.  Y.,  and  escaped  with  $50,000 
in  cash.  The  money  was  in  small  bills — 
$15,000  in  ones  and  $35,000  in  lives  and 
tens.  Ginsburg,  accompanied  by  two 
guards  and  a  chauffeur,  was  in  an  auto¬ 
mobile  owned  by  Samuel  Barnett,  vice- 
president  of  the  bank.  The  robbers  dis¬ 
armed  him,  forced  all  four  to  alight  and 
drove  off  in  the  bank  car  after  abandon¬ 
ing  their  own. 
Mayor  Roswell  O.  Johnson,  Judge  Wil¬ 
liam  Dunn  of  the  City  Court,  Prosecut¬ 
ing  Attorney  Dwight  Kinder  and  Sheriff 
William  L.  Olds  were  among  11  officials 
and  former  officials  of  Gary  and  of  Lake 
County.  Ill.,  arrested  at  Gary  January 
22  by  Federal  officers  on  warrants  charg¬ 
ing  conspiracy  to  violate  the  prohibition 
law.  Seventy-five  persons  in  all,  Federal 
officers  said,  would  be  arrested  on 
capiases  issued  by  the  Federal  Court  at 
Indianapolis.  Among  others  arrested 
were  Pete  Person,  constable ;  Andy  Wy- 
tow,  Nathan  Potts  and  John  Mullen, 
police  officers;  Clyde  Hunter,  former 
Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Lake  County ; 
Lewis  Barnes,,  former  Sheriff,  and 
Charles  I.  Clemens,  formerly  a  justice  of 
the  peace.  Three  attorneys,  Fred  Sea- 
bright,  Blaz  Lucas  and  Bryan  Narcowich, 
were  among  others  arrested. 
The  licensing  of  brokers  and  stock 
dealers  and  placing  the  sale  and  disposal 
of  securities  under  direction  of  the  State 
Superintendent  of  Banks  are  required  in 
the  bill  drawn  by  District  Attorney  Ban- 
ton  of  New  York  and  introduced  in  the 
New  York  Legislature  January  22  by 
Senator  Sheridan,  Democrat,  of  New 
York.  The  bill  provides  that  stocks  and 
bonds  of  a  corporation,  whether  domestic 
•  >r  foreign,  cannot  be  offered  to  the  public 
‘n  this  State  until  a  statement  detailing 
what  they  represent  has  been  filed  with 
the  Superintendent  of  Banks,  giving  full 
information  concerning  the  business  rep¬ 
resented,  its  purposes  and  the  names  of 
its  officers  and  directors  and  a  balance 
sheet  of  its  securities.  Corporations  also  I 
would  be  compelled  to  file  a  statement  to 
explain  the  purpose  for  which  the  moneys 
derived  from  the  sale  are  to  be  used. 
Governor  Silzer  of  New  Jersey  sent  a 
special  message  to  the  Legislature  Janu¬ 
ary  22  announcing  that  he  had  removed 
the  members  of  the  State  Highway  Com¬ 
mission,  pending  the  passage  of  a  law 
reducing  it  from  eight  to  three  members, 
and  denouncing  the  whole  system  of 
building  roads  in  New  Jersey,  which,  he 
said,  has  led  to  “corruption  and  a  great 
deal  of  waste.”  The  Governor  made  it 
clear,  however,  that  his  message  did  not 
intend  to  cast  any  reflection  on  the  mem¬ 
bers  of  the  ousted  board.  Most  of  the 
members  are  Democrats,  and  were  all  ap¬ 
pointed  by  Governor  Edwards.  Gover¬ 
nor  Silzer  discussed  the  abuse  of  the  so- 
called  patent  paving,  and  urged  the  pas¬ 
sage  of  laws  providing  for  open  specifi¬ 
cations  of  the  broadest  possible  fashion. 
He  also  asked  for  the  retrial  of  those 
indicted  for  combining  illegally  to  con¬ 
trol  the  cement  industry,  and  recom¬ 
mended  that  the  Highway  Commission  be 
authorized  to  contract  for  all  or  part  of 
the  cement  required  for  roads.  Governor 
8ilzer  presented  figures  to  show  that  by 
the  use  of  patent  paving  instead  of 
asphalt  the  taxpayers  were  losing  $1  a 
square  yard  in  the  cost  of  road  building. 
In  the  last  year  patent  paving  surfaces 
amounting  to  3,000,000  yards  were  laid 
on  StaTe  roads  or  roads  receiving  State 
aid. 
i  WASHINGTON.— The  Senate  Janu¬ 
ary  19  passed  the  Capper  rural  credits 
bill  and  arranged  for  immediate  consid¬ 
eration  of  the  supplementary  farm  aid 
measure,  the  Lenroot-Anderson  bill.  The 
Capper  bill  was  passed  without  opposi¬ 
tion  or  a  roll  call  after  several  attempts 
had  been  made  to  amend  it.  Administra¬ 
tion  leaders  are  agreed  to  hold  the  Len- 
root-Anderson  bill  before  the  Senate  un¬ 
til  disposed  of  before  proceeding  with  the 
Administration  shipping  hill.  A  substi¬ 
tute  shipping  bill,  introduced  Jan.  20  by 
Senator  McKellar  (Dem.,  Tenn.L  would 
strike  out  the  cash  Government  aid  pro¬ 
vision  of  the  Administration  bill,  abro¬ 
gate  commercial  treaties  which  Congress 
sought  to  annul  for  some  time,  abolish 
discriminating  rates  from  Atlantic  ports 
and  declare  a  10-year  policy  of  Govern¬ 
ment  ship  operation. 
'With  the  avowed  object  of  “prevent¬ 
ing  hasty  and  foolish  marriages,  and  of 
making  divorce  more  difficult,”  Senator 
Capper  of  Kansas  introduced  January  23 
in  the  Senate  a  bill  for  a  Federal  mar¬ 
riage  and  divorce  law.  The  bill  bars 
marriages  between  blacks  and  whites,  and 
between  Mongolians  and  whites.  Senator 
Capper  also  submitted  a  resolution  for  a 
proposed  constitutional  amendment  which 
would  give  Congress  authority  to  enact 
such  legislation,  The  proposed  legisla¬ 
tion  and  amendment  are  sponsored  by  the 
General  Federation  of  Women's  Clubs 
ajnd  were  prepared  at  the  direction  of  the 
federation  by  Mrs.  Edwards  Franklin 
White.  Deputy  Attorney-General  of  In¬ 
diana.  It  is  too  late  in  tin1  present  ses¬ 
sion  for  anything  to  be  passed  on  this 
subject,  but  it  is  the  intention  of  Senator 
Capper  and  the  General  Federation  of 
Women’s  Clubs  to  urge  action  in  the  new 
Congress. 
The  Green  resolution  proposing  an 
amendment  to  the  Constitution  which 
would  prohibit  further  issuance  of  tax- 
exempt  securities  was  adopted  January 
23  by  the  House.  The  proposal,  which 
had  been  urged  by  President  Harding  and 
Secretary  Mellin,  was  put  through  by  a 
margin  of  seven  votes.  Passage  of  the 
resolution  required  a  two-thirds  vote,  and 
the  roll  ••all  stood  223  to  101.  The  meas¬ 
ure  now  goes  to  the  Senate.  Some  House 
leaders  privately  expressed  the  opinion 
that  there  was  not  much  chance  of  its 
enactment  at  this  session. 
The  Senate  January  23,  by  a  vote  of 
50  t<>  18,  passed  the  Kellogg-Wadsworth 
bill  to  amend  the  national  bank  act  to 
permit  States  fo  tax  national  banks.  It 
now  goes  to  conference.  The  bill  carried 
an  amendment  offered  by  Senator  Calder 
(N.  Y.)  to  validate  taxes  already  col¬ 
lected  from  the  national  banks,  but  de¬ 
clared  by  the  courts  to  be  illegal. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Jan.  2-  Feb.  23  —  New  York  State 
School  of  Agriculture,  Cobleskill,  short 
course  in  agriculture  and  ice  cream 
making. 
Feb.  6-9 — New  York  State  Grange,  an¬ 
nual  meeting,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Feb.  7  -  April  17  —  Courses  in  agricul¬ 
ture  and  horticulture,  Columbia  Fniver- 
sity.  New’  York  City. 
Feb.  12-1*6 — Farmers’  Week,  New  Y’ork 
Agricultural  College,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
Feb.  21-23  —  Eastern  meeting,  New 
York  State  Horticultural  Society,  Pough¬ 
keepsie,  N.  Y. 
March  12-17 — International!  Flower 
Show.  Grand  Central  Palace,  New  York 
City. 
May  15-16 — American  Guernsey  Cattle 
Club.  New  York  City. 
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