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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
April  21,  192:] 
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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
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DOMESTIC. — Fourteen  persons  were 
killed  and  about  50  injured  April  4  at 
Pineville,  La.,  by  a  tornado  which  swept 
through  Alexandria  and  Pineville.  A 
dozen  persons  were  injured  by  a  tornado 
which  cut  a  swath  one  mile  wide  and  10 
miles  long  south  of  Wendell  in  Wake 
County,  N.  C.,  April  4.  wrecking  a  hun¬ 
dred  houses  and  doing  damage  of 
$100,000. 
Fourteen  men,  found  guilty  at  Boston, 
Mass.,  four  years  ago  of  conspiring  to 
keep  the  price  of  fish  at  high  levels  in 
war  time,  were  sentenced  to  jail  at  hard 
labor  April  7.  F.  Monroe  Dyer  of  New 
York  and  Boston,  a  banker  who  organized 
the  Bay  State  Fishing  Company,  de¬ 
scribed  as  the  “Fish  Trust,”  and  four  of 
the  biggest  dealers  who  were  officers  of 
the  company,  received  sentences  of  10 
months  in  jail  and  fines  of  $1,000  each. 
Nine  other  dealers,  members  of  the  com¬ 
pany,  were  sentenced  to  five  months  and 
fined  $500  each. 
Edward  Malone.  24,  a  pilot,  was  killed 
and  Herschel  McKee,  mechanic,  probably 
fatally  injured  in  an  airplane  accident  at 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  April  S.  The  men  at¬ 
tempted  a  flight  in  a  plane  owned  by  a 
commercial  aviation  company.  They  were 
said  to  have  started  Avithout  exhaust 
pipes.  When  they  reached  the  altitude  of 
about  200  feet  the  plane  burst  into 
flames. 
One  of  the  worst  snowstorms  of  the 
Winter  A’isited  Sudbury,  Ontario.  April 
and  the  others  were  members  of  a  sub¬ 
committee  of  engineers  in  charge  of  build¬ 
ing  construction  for  the  government  from 
April  6.  1917.  to  March  22,  1919. 
WASHINGTON.  —  It  was  learned 
April  5  that  agents  of  the  Department  of 
Justice  have  been  unable  to  discover  that 
there  has  been  a  violation  of  the  Sherman 
anti-trust  law  for  the  alleged  unwarrant¬ 
ed  rise  in  the  price  of  sugar  or  an  illegal 
combination  or  conspiracy. 
Bituminous  coal  operators  informed  the 
Coal  Commission  in  a  brief  filed  April  5 
that  in  their  opinion  the  policies  followed 
by  the  United  Mine  Workers  of  America 
constituted  the  chief  deterrent  to  satis¬ 
factory  conditions  in  the  coal  industry. 
Recent  periods  of  coal  shortage  and  high 
prices,  the  brief  said,  could  be  “directly 
traced”  to  the  miners’  union  and  the  rail¬ 
way  unions  associated  with  it.  It  was 
charged  that  acts  of  intimidation  and  vio¬ 
lence  on  the  part  of  the  United  Mine 
Workers  “are  not  sporadic  but  systemat¬ 
ic,”  and  that  the  resort  to  such  methods 
is  calculated  to  perpetuate  a  “monopoly” 
of  mine  labor. 
Revision  of  the  Fseh-Cummins  trans¬ 
portation  act  has  been  selected  by  the 
farm  bloc  of  the  new  Congress  as  the  big 
issue  to  be  campaigned  for  during  the 
Congressional  recess  and,  if  possible, 
thrust  into  the  legislative  foreground  at 
the  next  session.  Senator  Arthur  Cap¬ 
per  (Ivan.),  chairman  of  the  bloc,  said 
April  6  that  the  farmers  and  their 
friends  in  the  House  and  the  Senate  will 
not  be  satisfied  until  freight  rates  are  re¬ 
duced  on  farm  products.  Mr.  Capper 
says  he  has  figures  to  show  that  freight 
Fattening  Geese  on  a  Farm  in  Southeastern  Massachusetts 
8-9.  Ten  inches  of  snow  fell  and  a  strong 
wind  piled  up  drifts  vvhich  made  the 
streets  impassable. 
Robert  J.  Osborn  conducted  a  prosper¬ 
ous  confectionery  business  at  Middletown, 
N.  Y.,  for  many  years,  and  when  he  died 
it  was  thought  he  had  left  a  large  estate. 
Attorneys  have  discovered,  however,  that 
almost  all  of  it  consists  of  oil  stocks, 
bought  all  over  the  country,  which  have 
a  total  cash  Aralue  of  $20. 
The  United  States  Steel  Corporation 
instructed  its  subsidiary  companies  April 
9  to  effect  an  11  per  cent  increase  in  the 
Avages  of  their  common  labor  on  April  16. 
This  was  followed  quickly  by  similar  ac¬ 
tion  on  the  part  of  the  .Tones  &  Lauglilin 
Steel  Corporation,  one  of  the  largest  inde¬ 
pendent  manufacturers  of  steel,  and  an¬ 
nouncements  that  the  managements  of  the 
other  independent  steel  mills  are  consid¬ 
ering  like  action.  The  proportional  re¬ 
adjustment  of  the  pay  of  other  classes  of 
labor  also  ordered  by  the  Steel  Corpora¬ 
tion  means  that  virtually  all  its  employes, 
estimated  to  number  betAveen  235,000  and 
250.000,  will  share  the  increase.  On  the 
basis  of  the  1922  Avage  bill  it  is  estimated 
that  the  resulting  addition  to  the  payroll 
may  reach  $40,000,000  yearly. 
A  tragedy  of  the  rum-running  fleets 
was  disclosed  April  7  Avhen  the  bodies  of 
eight  members  <>f  the  crew  of  the  sunken 
steamer  “John  Dwight”  were  found  float¬ 
ing  in  Vineyard  Sound,  Mass.,  amid  bar¬ 
rels  of  bottled  ale.  The  steamer,  Avhieh 
Avent  down  within  sight  of  the  Cuttyhunk 
coast  guards  April  6,  A\ras  thought  to  have 
been  damaged  by  collision  with  another 
vessel.  Whether  the  second  ship  also 
sank  AA'as  in  doubt,  tout  lacking  wreckage 
other  than  that  of  the  “John  Dwight,” 
coast  guards  and  fishermen  Avho  found 
the  bodies  believed  that  only  one  craft 
Avent  down. 
The  New  York  State  Senate  April  10 
passed  the  Duunigan  bill  extending  for 
another  year  the  tax  exemption  laws, 
constitutionality  of  which  is  being  tested 
in  the  courts.  The  bill  permits  local  au¬ 
thorities  to  exempt  from  local  taxes  all 
buildings  erected  for  dAvelling  purposes 
before  April  1,  1924,  for  10  years. 
Col.  William  A.  Starrett  of  the  Thomp¬ 
son  Starrett  Company,  building  contrac¬ 
tors,  and  former  army  engineer  and  may¬ 
or  of  Madison,  N.  .T.,  was  ordered  by 
United  States  Commissioner  Emery  in 
Newark  April  10  to  appear  in  the  Fed¬ 
eral  Court  in  the  District  of  Columbia 
and  answer  an  indictment  charging  him 
with  conspiracy  to  defraud  the  govern¬ 
ment  in  connection  Avith  alleged  army 
camp  building  frauds  during  the  war. 
Seven  others,  including  Benedict  Crowell, 
Assistant  Secretary  of  War  under  Presi¬ 
dent  Wilson,  are  indicted  with  Col.  Star¬ 
rett.  charged  Avith  violating  Section  37  of 
the  Federal  criminal  code.  Col.  Starrett 
rates  are  the  greatest  factor  in  the  situa¬ 
tion  of  the  farmer.  He  says  N.  P.  Nel¬ 
son,  a  farmer  living  near  Lead,  N.  I).,  re¬ 
ceived  only  $1.30  as  his  return  on  a  car¬ 
load  of  potatoes  sold  at  Minneapolis  for 
$336  through  the  Minnesota  Potato  Ex¬ 
change.  The  sacks  for  shipping  the  po¬ 
tatoes  cost  Mr.  Nelson  $35.  The  freight 
charges  were  $180.60.  Other  carloads  of 
potatoes  shipped  from  Lead  last  Autumn 
brought  the  growers  from  $7  to  $8  a  car¬ 
load.  according  to  Mr.  Capper. 
Wages  cannot  be  fixed  by  law,  the  Su¬ 
preme  Court,  dividing  five  to  three,  de¬ 
cided  April  9  in  a  case  brought  to  test 
the  constitutionality  of  an  act  of  Con¬ 
gress  fixing  the  minimum  Avages  for  avoiu- 
en  and  minor  girls  in  the  District  of  Co¬ 
lumbia.  The  decision  Avas  delivered  by 
Justice  Sutherland,  Justices  McKenna. 
Van  Devanter,  McReynolds  and  Butler 
joining  with  him.  Chief  Justice  Taft  de¬ 
livered  a  dissenting  opinion  for  himself 
and  Justice  Sanford,  Avhile  Justice 
Holmes  read  a  dissenting  opinion  which 
followed  in  its  main  features  that  of 
Chief  Justice  Taft.  Justice  Brandeis  did 
not  participate  in  the  decision.  The  ma¬ 
jority  of  the  court  based  its  position 
probably  upon  the  right  of  contract,  in¬ 
sisting  that,  while  laws  could  be  enforced 
to  regulate  working  conditions,  the  em- 
ployer_  and  the  employee  must  be  free  of 
restrain  in  determining  betAveen  them¬ 
selves  what  wages  are  acceptable. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Feb.  7-April  23 — Courses  in  agricul¬ 
ture  and  horticulture,  Columbia  Univer¬ 
sity.  New  York  City. 
May  15-16 — American  Guernsey  Cattle 
Club,  NeAv  York  City. 
July  30- Aug.  3 — Farmers’  Week,  Con¬ 
necticut  Agricultural  College,  Storrs, 
Conn. 
Oct.  6-13 — National  Dairy  SIioav  and 
World’s  Dairy  Congress,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Dec.  13-15 — North  Bergen  County 
Poultry  Association,  fifth  annual  show, 
Westwood,  N.  J. 
Fire  Loss  Through  Carelessness 
What  is  the  law  in  New  York  State 
about  burning  over  land?  To  Avhat  ex¬ 
tent  is  a  man  liable  if  by  burning  over 
his  land  the  fire  gets  out  of  control  and 
burns  adjoining  timber  land?  C.  S. 
NeAV  York. 
The  person  Avho  negligently  sets  fire 
to  his  OAvn  Avoods  by  means  whereof  the 
property  of  another  is  endangered  or  who 
negligently  suffers  any  fire  upon  his  land 
to  extend  beyond  the  limits  thereof  is 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  under  the  penal 
law.  N.  T. 
