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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — An  airplane,  flown  by 
Joseph  M.  Murphy  and  Joseph  Bredelli 
of  the  National  Guard  aviation  service, 
developed  engine  trouble  while  500  feet 
above  New  Dorp,  S.  I.,  April  19.  and 
Murphy,  the  pilot,  was  not  able  to  keep 
it  from  falling.  It  crashed  through  the 
roofs  of  two  vacant  bungalows  at  774 
and  772  New  Dorp  Lane,  owned  by 
George  A.  Potts  and  Joseph  Shady. 
Murphy  and  Bredelli  crawled  from  the 
wreckage  before  policemen,  ambulances 
and  doctors  could  arrive,  and  found  that 
except  for  slight  bruises  they  were  not 
hurt. 
William  Hayward,  United  States  at¬ 
torney  for  this  district,  filed  an  injunc¬ 
tion  suit  in  the  United  States  District 
Court  April  19  against  the  New  York 
Coffee  and  Sugar  Exchange,  Inc. ;  the 
New  York  Coffee  and  Sugar  Clearing  As¬ 
sociation  and  23  members  of  these  organi¬ 
zations.  The  suit,  the  first  move  by  the 
Government  to  stop  the  increase  in  the 
price  of  sugar,  asks  the  court  to  restrain 
trading  in  sugar  futures  on  the  floor  of 
the  exchange  and  to  prevent  all  transac¬ 
tions  unless  backed  by  actual  ownership 
or  control  of  sufficient  supplies  to  meet 
the  requirements  of  the  transaction. 
Seizure  bv  the  British  authorities  in 
mid-ocean  of  a  dope  smuggler  transport¬ 
ing  $500,000  worth  of  narcotics  from 
Germany  to  Canada  for  distribution  there 
and  in  the  United  States  was  disclosed 
by  the  Canadian  police  April  20.  Mem¬ 
bers  of  the  drug  ring  fled  from  Halifax 
in  a  hydro-airplane  when  their  plans 
were  discovered,  it  was  reported.  They 
were  said  to  have  been  in  communication 
with  their  confederates  on  the  boat,  which 
was  bound  for  Halifax,  and  escaped  when 
communication  was  halted  through  the 
seizure  by  Scotland  Yard  authorities. 
According  to  the  police,  one-third  of  the 
shipment  was  destined  for  Montreal,  a 
third  for  (Winnipeg,  and  the  remainder 
for  the  United  States.  Police  believe 
rhe  conspirators  planned  to  smuggle  the 
drugs  into  the  United  States  by  air. 
More  than  1.000  persons  were  rendered 
homeless  April  20  by  a  fire  which  de¬ 
stroyed  the  town  of  Burke,  McDowell 
County,  W.  Ya. 
Four  persons  are  dead  as  the  result  of 
a  grade  crossing  accident  near  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  April  22,  when  a  train  struck  an 
automobile.  The  dead  are  Albert  Sher¬ 
man  and  his  wife  and  Mrs.  Emma  Meahl, 
all  of  Niagara  Falls,  and  Arnold  Cum- 
row  of  Ransomville.  The  automobile 
caught  fire  after  the  collision  and  Sher¬ 
man  was  probably  burned  to  death  before 
his  body  dropped  into  Ellicott  Creek  from 
the  railroad  bridge  where  the  wrecked 
car  was  piled. 
Four  men  were  killed  April  22  when  a 
passenger  train  on  the  Big  Four  Rail¬ 
road.  Cleveland  to.  Cincinnati,  struck  an 
automobile  at  a  crossing  at  Elmwood,  O. 
The  accident  happened  five  minutes  after 
the  crossing  watchman  quit  work. 
Fires  in  several  different  parts  of 
Staten  Island  April  22  destroyed  more 
than  $1,000,000  in  property,  and  kept 
every  available  piece  of  regular  and  vol¬ 
unteer  apparatus  busy  from  9  o’clock  in 
the  morning  until  after  midnight.  One 
fire,  that  which  virtually  destroyed  the 
plant  of  the  Tottenville  Copper  Com¬ 
pany,  caused  damages  estimated  at  $700,- 
000,  and  was  still  burning  a  day  later. 
The  other  main  fire  destroyed  several 
scows  at  the  Elizabethport  ferry,  and 
burned  out  part  of  the  ferryhouse  and 
the  ferryboat  Arthur  Kill. 
Fifteen  residents  of  Newark,  besides 
three  in  West  Orange  and  one  in  North 
Arlington,  N.  J.,  were  being  treated  for 
dog  bites  April  23,  and  Dr.  Charles  V. 
Craster,  Health  Officer  of  Newark,  has 
recommended  to  Mayor  Breidenbach  that 
all  dogs  be  inoculated  against  rabies.  The 
most  serious  was  at  398  Orange  Street, 
where  10  persons  were  bitten  by  a  dog, 
since  'proven  to  be  rabid.  Mrs.  Frank 
Gibbons  of  North  Arlington  was  attacked 
by  a  pet  bulldog  April  23.  The  three 
victims  in  West  Orange  were  all  bitten 
by  different  dogs. 
Recommendations  will  be  made  by  the 
joint  legislative  committee  investigating 
reported  abuses  of  convicts  in  Florida,  it 
was  said  by  the  committee  members.,  to 
abolish  the  convict  lease  system,  corporal 
punishment,,  immediate  removal  of  Sher¬ 
iff  J.  R.  Jones  of  Leon  County  and  the 
establishment  of  a  merit  system  by  which 
convicts  would  be  given  time  off  for  good 
behavior. 
John  Creedon  of  Philadelphia,  who  ran 
his  motor  into  a  crowd  waiting  for  a 
trolley  car  and  killed  a  girl  of  17,  was 
sentenced  April  23  to  four  to  eight  years 
on  a  plea  of  guilty  to  a  charge  of  mur¬ 
der.  Creedon  sped  away  after  knocking 
the  girl  down. 
About  72.000  railroad  express  men 
petitioned  the  Railroad  Labor  Board 
April  23  for  a  wage  increase  of  10  cents 
an  hour,  which  would  amount  to  $18,- 
000.000  a  year. 
Found  guilty  in  connection  with  the 
alleged  nationwide  plot  to  dispose  of  more 
than  $2,000,000  in  stolen  securities, 
Stanley  McCormick  and  Arthur  W.  Lind- 
blom  were  sentenced  April  24  to  serve 
seven  years  in  Leavenworth  penitentiary 
and  fined  $12,000  each  by  Judge  John  F. 
McGee  in  the  Minneapolis  Federal  Dis¬ 
trict  Court. 
The  State  Banking  Commissioner 
closed  the  City  Bank  at  York,  Pa.,  April 
24,  after  indications  of  a  shortage  of 
more  than  $800,000.  Warrants  were  is¬ 
sued  for  Thomas  B.  Baird,  cashier,  and 
W.  II.  Boll,  assistant  cashier. 
April  24  120  companies  of  fire  appa¬ 
ratus  from  the  Bronx  to  Far  Rockaway 
were  engaged  in  fighting  12  fires  which 
did  a  total  damage  estimated  at  $400,000. 
Almost  simultaneously  there  was  a  three- 
alarm  fire  in  Coney  Island  which  threat¬ 
ened  to  wipe  out  the  Bowery ;  a  five- 
alarm  fire  at  Far  Rockaway  which  was 
discouraged  by  an  off-shore  wind  from 
being  a  possible  repetition  of  the  Arverne 
blaze  a  year  ago ;  three  other  fires  in 
Rockaway,  three  in  Brooklyn,  three  in 
Manhattan,  and  one  in  the  Bronx.  To 
attend  to  these  almost  half  of  the  fire 
apparatus  in  Greater  New  York  was 
called  out. 
John  A.  Cervenka,  president  of  a  brew¬ 
ing  company,  who  was  installed  as  City 
Treasurer  of  Chicago  a  week  before ; 
John  L.  Iloerber,  Jr.,  also  a  brewer,  and 
Barney  Grogan,  former  saloonkeeper  and 
politician,  were  indicted  by  the  Federal 
Grand  Jury  at  Chicago  April  24  on 
charges  of  violating  the  prohibition  laws. 
The  two  indictments,  one  naming  Cer¬ 
venka  and  Grogan,  and  the  other  Iloer- 
ber  and  Grogan,  were  the  first  blows 
struck  by  the  grand  jury  which  recently 
received  vigorous  instructions  from  Fed¬ 
eral  Judge  Wilkerson  to  go  after  the  “big 
fellows”  in  prohibition  violations  as  well 
as  the  “small  fry.”  Cervenka  is  presi¬ 
dent  of  the  Pilsen  Products  Company, 
and  is  a  well-known  Democratic  politi¬ 
cian.  Iloerber  is  president  qf  the  Iloer- 
ber  Brewing  Company.  Grogan,  once  an 
Alderman,  long  has  been  powerful  in 
Democratic  ward  politics.  Four  other 
men,  said  to  be  beer  truck  drivers,  were 
named  in  the  indictments,  two  in  each 
true  bill. 
A  strike  of  the  Marine  Transport 
AVorkers  International  Union,  No.  510, 
became  effective  on  the  New  York  water¬ 
front  at  midnight  April  24,  according  to 
announcement  at  the  headquarters  of  the 
International  Workers  of  the  Industrial 
AVorkers  of  the  World,  12  South  Street. 
A  horizontal  wage  increase  of  $20  a 
month  above  the  Shipping  Board  scale 
for  those  aboard  ship  and  above  latest 
“beach”  quotations  for  those  ashore  was 
named  as  the  principal  demand.  The  men 
boast  thev  have  no  leaders. 
WASHINGTON.— Department  of  Jus¬ 
tice  agents  began  a  search  April  24  for 
Gaston  B.  Means,  until  recently  an  em¬ 
ployee  of  the  Bureau  of  Investigation 
under  William  J.  Burns,  who  is  accused 
of  procuring  large  sums  of  money  from 
men  interested  in  liquor  selling  on  the 
pretense  of  obtaining  for  them  special 
privileges.  These  special  privileges  were 
not  extended  and  A4rashington  has  begun 
an  investigation  into  the  charges  against 
Means. 
The  fight  to  have  declared  unconstitu¬ 
tional  the  laws  of  California  and  AVash- 
ington  preventing  aliens  not  eligible  to 
citizenship  from  leasing  or  owning  land 
was  taken  up  in  the  Supreme  Court  April 
23.  Those  challenging  the  laws  con¬ 
tended  that  they  discriminated  against 
persons  on  account  of  race  and  color. 
Chief  Justice  Taft  asked  what  the  Japan¬ 
ese  were  doing  to  create  objection  to 
them,  and  was  told  that  the  whites  re¬ 
fused  to  mix  with  them. 
Proclaiming  that,  adherence  by  the 
United  States  to  the  protocol  establishing 
the  International  Court  of  Justice  is  a 
platform  promise  that  must  be  redeemed 
by  the  Republican  party,  President  Hard¬ 
ing  declared  April  24  that  he  did  not  re¬ 
gard  this  question  as  a  menace  to  party 
unity.  His  speech  was  made  in  New 
York,  before  members  of  the  Associated 
Press. 
Secretary  Work  threw  open  April  24 
275,000  acres  of  public  land  in  five  West¬ 
ern  States  for  entry  by  former  service 
men.  The  tracts  are  222,000  acres  in 
Owyhee  County,  Idaho;  24.000  acres  in 
Beaverhead  County,  Montana ;  18,900 
acres  in  Elko  and  Eureka  counties, 
Nevada ;  5,500  acres  in  Rio  Arriba 
County,  New  Mexico,  and  4,600  acres  in 
Mesa  County.  Colorado. 
President  Harding  announced  April  24 
he  opposed  the  sale  by  the  Government 
of  any  surplus  war  material  to  foreign 
governments,  or  that  sucb  surplus  be 
used  for  the  encouragement  of  warfare 
any  place  in  the  world. 
Wool  Notes 
Foreign  markets  are  reported  strong, 
and  buying  in  the  West  is  progressing 
rapidly.  Present  demand  at  seaboard 
markets  in  the  East  is  mainly  on  worsted 
wools.  Following  are  recently  reported 
prices:  New  York  and  Michigan,  un¬ 
washed,  delaine,  55c;  half-blood,  53  to 
54e;  quarter-blood,  52c.  Ohio  and  Penn¬ 
sylvania  delaine,  56  to  58c ;  half-blood, 
combing.  57  to  58c.  New  England,  half- 
blood,  50  to  52c;  three-eighths-blood.  55 
to  56c.  Texas,  fine  scoured,  $1.25  to 
$1.45 ;  territory,  fine  staple,  $1.45  to 
$1.50. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
May  4 — Annual  meeting  of  cattle  feed¬ 
ers.  Pennsylvania  State  College,  State 
College,  Pa. 
May  15-16 — American  Guernsey  Cattle 
Club,  New  York  City. 
July  30-Aug.  3 — Farmers’  Week.  Con¬ 
necticut  Agricultural  College,  Storrs, 
Conn. 
Oct  6-13 — National  Dairy  Show  and 
World’s  Dairy  Congress,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Nov.  27-Dec.  1 — Poultry  Show.  Wash¬ 
ington,  D.  C.  Secretary,  D.  Lincoln  Orr, 
Orr’s  Mills,  N.  Y. 
Dee.  13-15 — -North  Bergen  County 
Poultry  Association,  fifth  annual  show. 
Westwood.  N.  J. 
Jan.  23-27.  1924— Poultry  Show,  Madi¬ 
son  Square  Garden,  New  York  City. 
Secretary,  D.  Lincoln  Orr.  Orr’s  Mills. 
N.  Y. 
Coming  Live  Stock  Sales 
May  10 — Holsteins.  Central  AA’iscon- 
sin  Holstein  Breeders’  Association, 
Marshfield,  Wis. 
May  31 — Shorthorns.  Coshocton  Coun¬ 
ty  Breeders’  Association,  Coshocton,  O. 
June  1 — Jerseys.  Meridale  Farms. 
Meredith.  N.  Y. 
June  7-8 — Holsteins.  Ohio  Ilolstein- 
Friesian  Association.  Cleveland,  O. 
June  12  —  Ayrsliires.  National  Ayr¬ 
shire  Consignment  Sale,  Saratoga  Springs, 
N.  Y. 
October  31  —  Ayrsliires.  Allegany- 
Steuben  County  Ayrshire  Club,  consign¬ 
ment  sale,  Hornell,  N.  Y. 
Customer:  “I  want  a  monkey.”  Clerk 
(in  a  pet  stock  shop)  ;  “What  kind  of 
monkey?”  Customer;  “A  live  one.”  Clerk 
(to  proprietor)  :  “Here,  boss,  you’re 
wanted.” — Le  Petit  Journal. 
BX  TTU£fe$  tfu  C outs  ^ 
Clea/n 
St.  Paul’s  School 
Fowler  Bros. 
Spofford  Sc  Sons 
L.  C.  Beane 
John  Bassett 
Rockingham  Co. 
A.  W.  Hobbs 
New  Hampshire  State  Hospital  Says 
Vv 
.  .  E  HAVE  USED  the  Burrell  Milker  for 
several  years.  At  present  we  are  milking  75  cows 
with  four  double  units.  The  machine  gets  as 
much  milk'  as  hand  milking;  it  is  easier  on  the 
cows  and  it  is  surely  easier  on  the  men.  We  are 
never  bothered  with  cows  kicking  after  one  or 
two  milkings,  or  with  teat  or  udder  trouble  that 
can  be  charged  to  the  milker.  Very  often  cows 
or  heifers  that  will  not  stand  for  hand  milking 
stand  still  to  be  milked  with  the  machine. 
“  It  would  be  quite  a  problem  to  do  without  the 
milker  at  this  institution,  with  the  number  of 
cows  we  milk  and  the  limited  amount  of  paid 
help.  It  is  hard  in  these  days  to  hire  and  keep 
good  men  if  they  are  required  to  milk  cows  twice 
a  day,  seven  days  a  week.  Our  men  all  like  the 
machine,  and  we  have  no  trouble  finding  and 
keeping  them.  Further,  the  Burrell  Milker  is  very 
easily  cared  for,  both  the  cleaning  and  the  taking 
apart  and  putting  together.” 
Here,  at  a  great  institution,  as  well  as  on  the  small 
dairy  farms,  the  Burrell  Milker  is  used  because  it 
aids  in  the  production  of  clean  milk,  makes 
milking  pleasant  for  both  the  cows  and  the  men, 
and  does  the  milking  better.  Whether  you  milk 
pure-breds  or  grade  cows,  use  the  Burrell  Milker. 
Remember,  the  Burrell  has  been  continuously  on  the  American  market  longer  than  any  other 
power  milking  machine.  Unless  you  know  the  Burrell,  you  do  not  know  the  full  worth 
to  you  of  a  milking  machine.  Send  for  catalog — no  obligation.  Please  address  Dept.  20. 
D.H.  BUrrell  &  Go.Inc. 
Little  Falls.  New  York 
TRADE  MARK 
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