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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — May  3,  Lieuts.  Oakley 
Kelly  and  John  A.  Maeready  reached  San 
Diego.  Cal.,  after  a  non-stop  flight  from 
New  York  to  the  Pacific  coast.  The  ap¬ 
proximate  distance  was  2,(500  miles,  and 
the  official  time  20  hours,  50  minutes, 
.‘>8  2/5  seconds. 
The  Board  of  Health  of  Queens  County. 
N.  Y.,  announced  May  3  that  since  the 
first  of  this  year  248  persons  in  the  coun¬ 
ty  had  been  bitten  by  dogs,  and  that  an 
effort  will  he  made  to  clear  the  county  of 
all  stray  animals.  Together  with  the 
Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to 
Animals'the  board  of  health  will  begin  a 
campaign  against  owners  of  dogs  who 
allow  their  pets  out  without  muzzles  and 
licenses.  Every  owner  of  such  an  animal 
will  be  arraigned  in  the  local  courts, 
officials  say  that  never  before  in  a  sim¬ 
ilar  period  had  so  many  persons  been 
bitten. 
Alexander  Howat,  deposed  president  of 
the  Kansas  District  United  Mine  "Work¬ 
ers  of  America,  has  been  denied  admit¬ 
tance  to  Canada.  Ilovvat  was  detained 
at  the  border  on  his  way  to  address  the 
miners  at  (11a ce  Bay,  <>n  the  ground  that 
he  might  become  a  public  charge.  Howat 
now  is  in  Maine. 
The  New  York  Legislature  May  4 
wiped  the  Mullan-Gage  State  enforce¬ 
ment  liquor  law  off  the  statute  books. 
The  Assembly  passed  the  repeal  Dill  by  a 
vote  of  7(5  to  71.  and  the  Senate  con¬ 
curred  by  voting  28  to  23.  After  one  of 
the  most  extraordinary  proceedings  that 
ever  characterized  the  repeal  of  a  State 
law  the  measure  which  lent  New  ^  ork 
support  to  enforcement  of  the  Volstead 
act  was  carried  through  amid  the  greatest 
excitement  the  Capitol  has  seen  this 
%  car.  New  York  State  is  loft  without  any 
liquor  enforcement  law.  The  Federal  law 
still  is  binding  on  the  State,  but  Federal 
officers  are  specifically  instructed  by  the 
law  to  carry  out  its  terms.  The  result 
is  that  the  State  police  will  no  longer 
operate  under  the  mandate  of  State  law 
to  stop  bootlegging  at  the  border  and 
liquor  running  along  the  highways  in  the 
north  country. 
fensive  will  be  waged  against  the  moth 
which  is  destroying  the  forests  of  New 
England.  The  balloon,  which  is  equipped 
with  two  motors  of  75  horsepower,  will 
be  navigated  by  an  army  crew  and  will 
be  based  at  Concord  for  extensive  opera¬ 
tions  over  the  rapidly  disappearing  for¬ 
ests. 
The  Pennsylvania  State  College  is  plan¬ 
ning  to  hold  a’  Farmers’  Day,  Thursday, 
June  14.  A  live  stock  show  and  parade 
will  be  held  the  preceding  evening,  and  a 
sale  of  purebred  calves  will  be  held 
Thursday  afternoon. 
Meetings  are  being  held  in  the  tobacco 
growing  sections  of  Wisconsin  to  combat 
the  attacks  on  the  Northern  Wisconsin 
Co-operative  Tobacco  Pool. 
WASHINGTON.  —  Regulations  being 
-  drafted  by  the  Treasury  Department  for 
-■enforcement  of  the  prohibition  act  under 
the  Supreme  Court*  decision  will  "provide 
for  invoking  all  penalties  of 'the  ’act 
against. foreign  ships  bringing  any  liquor 
supplies  info  this  y-oiinfry  except  medic¬ 
inal  whisky  or  wine.  /  Enforcement  offi¬ 
cials  will  be  warned,  however,  not  to  at¬ 
tempt  seizure  of  steamships  or  other 
craft  unless  violation  of  the  law.  is  flag¬ 
rant  and  circumstances  warrant  such  pro¬ 
cedure.  Otherwise  illicit- -supplies  are  to 
be  seized  and  guilty ’persons  taken  before 
United  Stales  courts.* 
Arguments  were  completed  before  the 
Supreme  Court  May  4  in  the  two  test 
cases  challenging  the  constitutionality  of 
the  Sheppafd-Towner  ’  Maternity  act. 
Counsel  for  the  State  of  Massachusetts 
argued  that  Congress  had  no  right  to  ap¬ 
propriate  funds  to  the  States  under  con¬ 
ditions  requiring  surrender  of  part  of  the 
State’s  police  power. 
Approval  of  plans  for  permanent  log¬ 
ging  operations  on  45,000  acres  in  the 
<  Ovens  River-Mono  Lake  working  circle 
of  the  National  Forest  was  announced 
May  4.  by  the  Forest  Service,  which  said 
the  area  contained  a  stand  of  timber  esti¬ 
mated  at  560,000,000  board  feet,  mostly 
Jeffrey  and  Lodgepole  pine  and  fir.  It  is 
planned  to  cut  the  forest  over  twice  dur¬ 
ing  the  next  140  years,  a  sustained  annual 
yield  during  the  first  70  years  of  7,000,- 
000  board  feet  having  been  forecast. 
The  United  States  will  be  defendant  in 
a  suit  involving  $750,000,000.  which  was 
filed  in  the  Court  of  Claims  May  7  on  be¬ 
half  of  several  Indian  tribes.  This  suit 
is  the  largest  ever  brought  against  the 
government.  The  petition,  which  is 
brought  under  an  act  of  Congress  passed 
in  1020.  enables  the  Sioux  Indians  of 
North  Dakota.  South  Dakota,  Nebraska 
and  Montana  to  put  before  the  Court,  of 
Claims  40  separate  items  to  the  total  of 
$210,635,104.  but.  calculating  interest  de¬ 
manded,  this  sum  will  be  increased  to 
$750,000,000.  Suit  is  brought  under 
treaties  between  the  Sioux  Indians  and 
the  United  States  going  as  far  back  as 
1825.  Their  principal  claim  is  for  lands 
taken  by  the  United  States  in  the  Black 
Hills  of  South  Dakota. 
All  vessels  entering  American  ports 
must-  declare  with  customs  officers  all  in¬ 
toxicating  beverages  carried  on  board. 
The  Supreme  Court,  in  a  decision  May  7 
directly  affecting  the  ship  liquor  situation, 
held  that  masters  of  arriving  vessels  must 
show  bn  their  manifests  all  articles  on 
hoard,  including  articles  the  importation 
of  which  is  prohibited.  The  decision  was 
handed  down  in  fan  opium  case  from 
Washington  State.  The  master  of  a  vessel 
was.  held  for  failure  to  declare  smoking 
opium.  MBs  defense  was  that  it  was  not 
for  importation  and  that  articles  denied 
importation  need  not  be  declared. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
May  15-16 — American  Guernsey  Catfle 
Club,  New  York  City. 
June  13-14 — Farmers’  Day,  live  stock 
show  and  parade,  Pennsylvania  State 
College,  State  College,  Pa. 
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.  27-1  >ce.  1 — Poultry  Show,  Wash¬ 
ington,  D.  (’.  Secretary,  D.  Lincoln  Orr, 
Hit’s  Mills,  N.  Y. 
Dec.  13  -  15  —  North  Bergen  County 
Poultry  Association,  fifth  annual  show, 
West  wood,  N.  J. 
Jau.  23-27.  1924 — Poultry  Show,  Madi¬ 
son  Square  Garden.  New  York  City.  Sec¬ 
retary.  1).  Lincoln  Orr,  Orr’s  Mills,  N.  Y. 
How  to  Catch  Carp 
There  are  plenty  of  carp  in  our  river, 
but  I  am  unable  to  catch  any  of  them.  I 
hope  you  can  supply  the  information.  If 
you  fail  in  this  it  will  be  the  first  time. 
West  Virginia.  B.  T. 
In  this,  as  in  all  cases  where  the  com¬ 
mon  names  of  fishes  are  concerned,  we 
must  first  know  what  fish  is  meant.  Sug¬ 
gestions  for  catching  the  big  minnow 
know  as  German  carp  would  be  of  no 
value  in  trying  to  catch  the  sucker  called 
river  carp.  The  river  carp  is  thinner 
than  the  German  carp,  the  front  of  the 
big  fin  on  the  back  is  usually  more  or  less 
drawn  out  like  a  streamer,  it  is  usually 
very  silvery,  in  color,  and  it  lias  no  bar¬ 
bels  (whiskers)  around  the  mouth.  The 
German  carp  is  thicker  in  the  body,  there 
is  a  strong  bony  spine  in  the  front  edge 
of  the  fin  on  the  back,  the  color  is  usu¬ 
ally  more  or  less  golden  or  greenish,  and 
there  are  two  barbels  at  each  corner  of 
the  month. 
It  is  almost  impossible  to  catch  the 
river  carp  except  in  nets.  Once  in  a 
while  it  will  bite  on  a  worm  or  similar 
bai't. 
The  German  carp  will  bite  rather  free¬ 
ly  on  many  kinds  of  bait  and,  once 
hooked,  it  usually  puts  up  quite  an  argu¬ 
ment  against  being  brought  to  shore.  Al¬ 
though  it  takes  many  baits,  it  is  as  wary 
as  a  brook  trout,  and  will  not  take  any¬ 
thing  that  looks  suspicious.  It  will  not 
usually  bite  if  the  fisherman  is  in  sight 
or  if  the  line  comes  directly  to  the  hook 
without  a  transparent  “loader.” 
The  commonly  accepted  bait  for  carp 
is  dough.  This  is  usually  made  up  with 
some  cotton  mixed  in  and  then  cooked  in 
small  balls  until  it  will  hold  together  on 
the  hook.  Potatoes  partly  cooked  are 
often  used  as  bait.  Corn  which  has  been 
soaked  until  soft  is  sometimes  used. 
Beans  which  have  been  partly  cooked  are 
a  favorite  with  some  fishermen.  Occa¬ 
sionally  a  carp  is  caught  on  a  worm.  In 
some  places,  especially  where  river  clams 
arc  fished  for  and  the  meats  thrown  away, 
these  meats  are  good  carp  bait.  „  Carp 
will  take  many  baits,  but  the  most  im¬ 
portant  point  in  fishing  for  them  is  to 
avoid  any  suspicious  sound  or  appear¬ 
ance.  A.  C.  W. 
Five  bandits  in  an  automobile  robbed 
two  banks  in  Buckner,  Mo.,  simultaneous¬ 
ly  May  4  and  escaped  with  $6,000  in 
.•'ash  and  $25,000  in  registered  Liberty 
bonds. 
Benjamin  Kiuchen,  one  of  Louisiana  s 
“strawberry  kings,”  was  arrested  May  4 
by  Federal  authorities  on  a  charge  ot 
peonage.  He  is  accused  of  bolding  a 
negress  and  her  two  daughters  “in  a  state 
of  involuntary  servitude.” 
Hampered  by  huge  heaps  of  wreckage 
at  the  Southwestern  mine 
of  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Fuel  Company,  near  Aguilar, 
Col.,  rescue  men  May  6  struggled  to 
reach  seven  men  still  entombed  by  au  ex¬ 
plosion.  Three  bodies  were  receovered, 
bringing  the  total  dead  and  missing  to  10. 
Three  miners  escaped  alive. 
Fire  May  6  destroyed  the  plant  of  the 
Wald  wick  Coal  and  Lumber  Company, 
Wkildwick,  N.  J.,  with  a  loss  estimated 
at  $150,000.  Two  nearby  residences  also 
were  destroyed. 
Police  reserves,-  pulmotors,  six  ambu¬ 
lances  and  nearly  a  battalion  of  New 
York  City  firemen  were  burned  to  the 
08th  Street  station  of  the  Lexington  Ave¬ 
nue  subway  at  the  peak  of  the  rush  hour 
May  7  while  1.500  passengers  in  a  tightly 
closed  northbound  Kingsbridge  Road  ex¬ 
press  battled  together  in  the  semi -dark¬ 
ness  40  ft.  below  the  surface  where  the 
acrid  fumes  of  burning  insulation  were 
scorching  their  lungs.  As  a  result  of  the 
panic  10  persons  overcome  by  the  fumes 
or  cut  and  bruised  by  the  melee  and  fly¬ 
ing  glass  were  sent  to  a  hospital,  and  30 
or  more  were  given  first  aid  at  emergency 
stations  set  up  along  the  route,  afterward 
to  b'o  hurried  to  their  homes.  _  None  of 
the  injured  were  expected  to  die. 
Sweeping  down  the  far  North,  an  Alas¬ 
kan  storm  of  unusual  intensity  for  the 
season  gripped  the  Central  States  May  S. 
Illinois,  Kansas  and  Iowa  had  snow  and 
sleet,  while  real  snowstorms  were  report¬ 
ed  in  Minnesota  and  North  Dakota.  Ash¬ 
land,  Wis.,  reported  navigation  on  Lake 
Superior  made  difficult  by  a  baby  blizzard 
there.  Word  came  of  snow  and  sleet  at 
Owensboro.  Ivy.,  and  as  far  to  the  west 
as  Grand  Forks,  N.  D.  To  complete  the 
record  of  the  country’s  climate,  San  Ber¬ 
nardino,  Cal.,  complained  that  all  heat 
records  for  May  had  been  broken  there 
with  a  temperature  of  101  degrees.  Phoe¬ 
nix.  Ariz..  had  its  hottest  May  7  for  2S 
years— 1 00  degrees. 
Njnc  convicts  serving  at  (lie  convict 
camp  of  State  Senator  T.  J.  Knabb  in 
Baker  County.  Fla.,  met.  tlieir  deaths  last 
year,  six  dying  since,  last  September,  the 
join)  "legislative  committee  investigating 
convict  camp  brutalities  was  told  May  8 
bv  Mrs.  Thelma  Franklin,  a  social  worker 
of  Glen  St.  Mary,  in  Baker  County.  Mrs. 
Franklin  went  down  a  list  and  told  of  the 
deaths,  calling  each  victim  by  name,  and 
’•elated  how  the  men  were  buried.  She 
assorted  that  two  colored  women,  who 
were' to  have  appeared  as  witnesses,  had 
been  shot  and  killed  within  a  week. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN. — War  on  the 
gypsy  moth  by  the  Department  of  Agri¬ 
culture  will  be  carried  on  through  the . 
medium  of  a  motor  balloon.  The  M-B.  a 
new  balloon  designed  by  the  War  De- 
lart.ment., , has  .been  turned  over  to. .the 
•sl,fW*r( yw  i  * H 5;  i IV  •  ‘,3 1 
>epa rfmenr  or  Agriculture. 
Fortifying  Faith. 
with  Facts 
In  their  partiality  for  Firestone  Gum-Dipped 
Cords,  the  majority  of  farmers  in  America  are  in¬ 
fluenced  by  the  knowledge  that  this  name  has 
meant  Most  Miles  per  Dollar  for  over  twenty 
years.  They  have  the  facts  to  justify  their  con¬ 
fidence  in  these  tires. 
For  uncertain  weather  and  for  all  conditions  of 
roads,  the  farmer  wants  a  safe,  sure  hold.  This 
he  has  in  the  powerful  gripping  angles  of  the 
Firestone  tread;  it  presents  the  right  angle  of  re¬ 
sistance  against  swerve.  And  the  toughness  of 
the  rubber  makes  this  tread  slower  to  wear — re¬ 
taining  its  non-skid  effectiveness  for  thousands 
of  miles. 
In  the  past  six  months  the  demand  for  Firestone 
Gum-Dipped  Cords  has  increased  194%  over  the 
same  period  one  year  ago — proof  that  the  public 
has  found  genuine  economy  and  satisfaction  in 
these  reliable  tires. 
Gum-Dipped  Cords 
