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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
June  30,  1023 
For  Every  Kind  of  Rural 
Transport 
FRUIT  GROWER,  dairy  farmer,  market  gardener,  truck 
farmer,  stockman,  poultry  farmer, — food  producers  of 
every  description  and  in  every  section  have  found  the 
Speed  Wagon  the  most  definitely  practical  vehicle  for 
economical  haulage. 
Designed  and  manufactured  as  a  unit  (not  assembled) 
in  the  big  Reo  shops,  the  Speed  Wagon  has  balanced  good- 
7iess.  Stamina  for  a  quarter-million  miles  (or  more)  is 
inbuilt,  and  a  policy  of  50%  oversize  applied  to  all  vital 
parts  guarantees  certainty  of  performance  under  the 
severest  conditions  of  operation. 
Ruggedness — fleetness — safety — roadability — ease  of 
driving  and  riding — remarkable  economy.  All  are  provable 
Speed  Wagon  factors,  and  reasons  why  there  are  nearly 
100,000  Speed  Wagons  in  service. 
Capacity,  500  to  1500  pounds.  Equipped  with 
pneumatic  cord  tires  and  complete  electrical 
system.  Chassis,  $1185  at  Lansing;  add  tax. 
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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — As  president  and  treas¬ 
urer  of  the  Tames  W.  Elliott  Business 
Builders,  which  failed  on  November  17, 
being  short  $144,000,  James  W.  Elliot 
and  William  C.  Bentley  were  held  June 
15  by  Magistrate  George  W.  Simpson  in 
the  Commercial  Fraud  Court,  New  YTork 
City,  in  $5,000  for  Grand  Jury  action  on 
a  felony  charge.  They  were  charged  with 
violating  Section  952  of  the  penal  laws, 
which  prohibits  the  issuance  of  a  false 
prospectus  for  the  purpose  of  selling 
stock.  Both  gave  bail. 
Memorial  services  for  the  1,031  persons 
who  perished  in  the  Gen.  Slocum  disas¬ 
ter  on  June  15,  1904,  were  held  June  15, 
in  the  Lutheran  Cemetery  in  Middle  V  il¬ 
lage,  Queens,  N.  Y.  They  were  under 
the  direction  of  the  Gen.  Slocum  Sur¬ 
vivors  Association,  which  is  composed  of 
survivors  of  the  tragedy  and  relatives  of 
the  deceased. 
Twenty-six  persons  were  more  or  less 
seriously  injured  or  burned  and  nearly 
$2,000,000  in  property  was  destroyed  in 
a  fire  which  swept  over  the  big  plant  ot 
the  Atlantic  Refining  Company,  Pitts¬ 
burgh,  Pa.,  June  16.  The  fire  startel 
when  a  14,000-gallon  oil  tank  was  struck 
bv  lightning.  Four  gasoline  tanks  which 
went  up  in  a  roar  are  reported  to  have 
each  contained  50,000  gallons.  The  burn¬ 
ing  gasoline,  intermingled  with  heavy 
petroleum,  covered  an  area  of  several 
blocks  and  in  a  long  streak  of  fire  plunged 
into  the  Allegheny  River. 
Bernard  .T.  McCabe  of  Detroit  was  in¬ 
stantly  killed  when  he  was  thrown  fifty 
feet  from  his  machine  in  a  100-mile  au- 
tomobile  race  at  Grant  Rapids.  Mich., 
June  17.  The  machine  overturned  when 
it  struck  a  machine  driven  by  P.yron 
Daley  of  Jackson,  Mich.,  which  had 
stopped  because  of  a  blown  tire. 
The  placing  of  collective  and  individual 
legal  responsibility  upon  the  members  of 
the  United  Mine 'Workers  of  America  for 
carrying  out  their  contracts  was  recom¬ 
mended  as  a  strike  preventive  June  18  to 
the  United  States  Coal  Commission  by 
the  operators’  association  of  the  Central 
Pennsylvania  District  in  a  brief  submit¬ 
ted  on  behalf  of  the  bituminous  coal  op¬ 
erators  and  attorneys  acting  for  the  as¬ 
sociations.  The  brief  recommends  as 
other  means  of  eliminating  strikes  the 
abolition  of  the  check-off  system  imposed 
hv  the  United  Mine  Workers;  re-estab¬ 
lishment.  of  real  collective  barganing  up¬ 
on  the  basis  of  district  or  sectional  wage 
agreements;  the  placing  of  wage  rates  in 
the  mining  industry  upon  a  parity  with 
other  industries  employing  the  same 
classes  of  labor ;  the  absolute  right  to  in¬ 
troduce  labor-saving  devices  and  ma¬ 
chinery  -without  interference  by  the 
union,  and  the  inclusion  of  arbitration 
clauses  in  all  wage  agreements,  similar 
to  those  contained  in  the  Central  Penn¬ 
sylvania  District  agreement.  The  Central 
Pennsylvania  District  numbers  about  60.- 
000  miners  and  produces  annually,  forty 
to  sixty  million  tons  of  coal.  The  district 
is  largely  unionized. 
Marcus  Garvey,  negro  leader,  was 
found  guilty  of  using  the  mails  to  de¬ 
fraud  investors  in  the  Black  Star  Steam¬ 
ship  Line,  of  which  he  was  president  and 
promoter,  in  New  York,  June  18.  George 
Tobias,  Elie  Garcia  and  Orlando  M. 
Thompson,  co-defendants .  with  Garvey 
and  business  associates  with  him  in  the 
organization  of  the  Black  Star  . Line,  were 
acquitted.  In  dismissing  the  jury  Judge 
Mack  thanked  them  for  their  patience 
during  27  days  of  the  trial.  He  entered 
an  order  excusing  each  juror  from  further 
jury  duty  in  Federal  courts  for  four 
years. 
Ten  or  twelve  unmasked  bandits,  all 
armed,  went  to  the  garage  of  the  City 
Service  Taxi  Corporation,  1113  Avenue 
A.  New  York  City,  June  18,  held  fifty 
chauffeurs  and  garage  Avorkers  at  bay 
and  robbed  the  cashier  of  $3,000.  They 
seemed  to  know  the  practices  of  the  place, 
getting  there  just  after  the  chauffeurs 
had  turned  in  their  receipts  for  the  night. 
The  bandits  hacked  out  of  the  garage 
with  their  revolvers  leveled  and  got  away 
in  several  motor  cars  they  had  parked  at 
the  curb. 
Frank  Keeney,  Fred  Mooney  and  Will¬ 
iam  Blizzard,  all  officers  of  District  17, 
United  Mine  Workers  of  America,  came 
before  Judge  S.  II.  Sharp  in  the  Circuit 
Court  at  Lawrence,  W.  Va.,  June  18,  to 
answer  to  indictments  charging  them 
with  being  accessories  before  the  fact  in 
the  killing  of  three  deputy  sheriffs  at 
the  time  of  the  armed  march  of  union 
miners  into  Logan  county  in  1921.  The 
deputies  killed  were  shot  by  union  miners 
on  Blair  Mountain.  The  Rev.  J.  E 
Wilburn  and  his  son,  John  are  now  serv¬ 
ing  penitentiary  sentences  for  the  actual 
killings.  Keeney  is  president  of  the  mine 
workers  in  West  Virginia.  Mooney  is  sec¬ 
retary-treasurer,  and  Blizzard  is  presi¬ 
dent  of  sub-district  number  two. 
Fifteen  years  after  his  death  the  will 
of  Ira  D.  Sankey,  famous  evangelist  and 
long  associated  with  Dwight  Moody,  has 
been  entered  for  probate  in  the  Surro¬ 
gate’s  office  in  Brooklyn.  This  was  made 
necessary  fhrough  the  recent  discovery 
of  a  hank  account  in  the  name  of  Mr. 
Sankey  in  a  local  bank.  The  amount  is 
set  down  m  the  petition  to  probate  at 
$7,250.  The  evangelist  died  at  his  home, 
14S  South  Oxford  street,  Brooklyn,  on 
August  13,  1908.  His  will  is  dated  Sep¬ 
tember  13,  1902.  Since  his  death  bis 
widow,  two  sons  and  both  executors  have 
died.  The  will  was  not  filed  before  be¬ 
cause  the  evangelist  left  his  property  to 
his  widow  and  two  sons  in  the  manner  in 
which  they  would  have  inherited  had 
their  been  no  will. 
Philip  A.  Drumm,  cashier  of  the 
American  State  Bank  of  Wichita.'  one 
of  the  largest  State  banks  in  Kansas,  was 
released  on  bond  of  $15,000,  June  19,  fol- 
loAving  his  arrest  on  a  charge  of  misap¬ 
propriating  funds  of  the  institution.  A 
shortage  of  neany  $1,500,000  was  found 
in  his  accounts  June  18,  and  the  bank 
closed  its  doers  June  19.  A  warrant  for 
Drumm’s  arrest  Avas  issued  on  complaint 
of  the  Kansas  State  Bank  Commissioner, 
charging  him  with  making  a  false  state¬ 
ment  to  State  bank  examiners  on  No¬ 
ember  4.  1922. 
Sheriff  Amza  W.  Biggs  of  Suffolk 
County,  New  York,  reported  June  19 
that  a  band  of  40  armed  men  in  motor 
cars  had  blocked  an  attempt  by  eight  of 
his  deputies  to  raid  a  cache  of  bootleg 
Avhisky  valued  at  nearly  $50,000.  The 
huge  quantity  of  liquor,  which  is  alleged 
to  have  been  stored  in  a  barn  on  the  farm 
of  Captain  Fred  Davis,  oAvnei*  of  a  fish¬ 
ing  smack,  is  alleged  to  have  disappeared 
before  the  forces  of  the  sheriff  could 
procure  a  search  warrant. 
The  Rev.  N.  F.  Iloyer,  a  missionary, 
who  came  to  Nome,  Alaska,  by  way  of 
East  Cape,  Siberia,  after  a  Winter  on 
the  Little  Diomedes  Islands  in  Bering 
Strait,  is  authority  for  the  statement 
that  the  American  Trading  schooners 
Silver  Wave,  Iskum  and  Belinda  are  de¬ 
tained  at  East  Cape  and  their  crews  are 
under  arrest  charged  with  violating  ihe 
Russian  Soviet  GoArernment’s  trading 
laws.  The  craft  and  crews  were  being 
held.  Dr.  Ho.ver  said,  until  the  arrival 
from  the  couth  of  a  vessel  with  high 
Soviet  officials.  No  violence  had  been 
done  fhe  men,  he  said. 
How  high  American  freight  rates  ben¬ 
efit  foreign  ship  owners  was  told  June 
39,  in  an  announcement  by  Sir  David 
Llewellyn,  a  Welsh  coal  OAvner,  who  re¬ 
turned  from  the  United  States  on  the 
Aquitania.  He  announced  that  he  had 
made  contracts  to  supply  1.000.000  tons 
of  Welsh  anthracite  annually  for  five 
years.  Sir  David  pointed  out  that  the 
freight  rate  from  the  mines  to  cities  like 
New  York,  Boston  and  Baltimore  Avas 
over  $4  a  ton,  Avhile  the  ocean  rate  from 
Bristol  and  channel  ports  to  New  York 
was  only  seven  shillings  six  pence. 
From  15  months  to  four  years  in  prison 
was  the  sentence  imposed  June  19  on 
Edward  M.  Fuller  and  William  F.  Mc¬ 
Gee,  confessed  bucketeers,  who  took 
from  a  confiding  public  upward  of  $5,- 
000.000.  The  sentence,  imposed  bv  Judge 
Nott  in  General  Sessions,  NeAV  York, 
followed  a  plea  of  guilty  to  one  to  12 
indictments  charging  bucketing,  for 
Avhich  the  maximum  sentence  is  from 
two  and  a  half  to  five  years.  The  case 
has  no  relation  to  the  contempt  pro¬ 
ceedings  which  have  kept  the  two  men 
confined  in  Ludlow  street  jail  Federal 
prisoners,  for  40  days  and  40  nights. 
WASHINGTON.— Progress  by  the  In¬ 
fernal  Retinue  Bureau  in  auditing  and 
settling  back  taxes  has  run  the  item  of 
refunds  to  taxpayers  to  $116,000,000  for 
the  first  11  months  of  the  present  fiscal 
year.  As  against  that  item,  however,  the 
Government  has  collected  in  delinquent 
taxes  on*  false  returns  nearly  $400,000,- 
000.  Detailed  figures  on  Government  ex¬ 
penditures  show  decreases  for  nearly  all 
the  Government  departments  and‘  for 
Congress.  Expenses  of  the  Veterans’ 
Bureau,  however,  are  nearly  $100,000,000 
ahead  of  those  for  last  year. 
President  Harding’s  'budget  system  of 
controlling  the  cost  of  Government,  in 
operation  only  about  tAATo  years,  has  put 
the  Government  squarely  on  its  feet 
financially.  June  18  the  Executive,  ad¬ 
dressing  members  of  the  Cabinet  and  sev¬ 
eral  hundred  officials  of  the  Federal  busi¬ 
ness  organization,  announced  that  the 
fiscal  year  ending  June  30.  would  close 
Avith  a  surplus  of  $200,000,000  in  the 
Treasury  instead  of  the  deficit  of  $697.- 
000.000  predicted  by  Treasury  estimates 
a  year  ago. 
Recipes  from  the  Pacific  Coast 
Prune  Puff. — Four  eggs,  one-half  cup 
powdered  sugar,  one  cup  cooked  prunes. 
Whip  egg  whites  to  stiff  froth,  add  sugar 
slowly,  heating  continually.  Add  prunes, 
Avhich  have  been  stoned  and  chopped ; 
Avhip  till  very  light.  Bake  in  pudding 
dish  in  moderate  oven  about  15  minutes. 
Serve  cold,  with  soft  custard  made  from 
yolks  of  eggs. 
Prune  Bread. — One  cup  prunes,  2% 
cups  graham  flour,  %  cup  sugar,  one  tea¬ 
spoon  salt,  three  teaspoons  baking  pow¬ 
der,  one  cup  milk,  one  tablespoon  melted 
shortening.  Stone  and  chop  prunes 
(prunes  must  be  soaked  several  hours 
and  drained),  mix  flour,  sugar,  salt  and 
baking  powder,  add  milk  and  beat  well. 
Add  fruit  and  shortening.  Put  into 
greased  pan  and  alloAV  to  stand  25  min¬ 
utes  in  warm  place.  Bake  in  moderate 
oven  one  hour. 
Loganberry  Shortcake.  —  Two  cups 
flour,  V2  teaspoon  salt,  two  tablespoons 
sugar,  three  teaspoons  baking  poAvder, 
three  tablespoons  shortening,  cup 
milk,  one  quart  Loganberries.  Sift  dry 
ingredients ;  mix  in  shortening,  add  milk 
to  make  soft  dough,  smooth  out  lightly. 
Bake  in  greased  deep  layer  cake  tin  in 
hot  oven  25  minutes.  Split,  butter  and 
spread  sweetened  crushed  berries  or  other 
fruit  between  layers.  MRS.  J.  ay.  b. 
