The evening world. Newspaper, August 14, 1920, Page 3

\ \ WESTERN FARMS ROBBED OF $45000 Children of the Rich at Southampton, L. L., Favorite THIS: YEAR HAVE LABOR SURPLUS ‘Enormous ee and Wonder- ful Prosperity Seen \ on All Sides, TRACTORS DO WORK. Every Farmer Has His Auto- inobiles, and the Day of the Horse Has Passed. |... By Martin Green. ‘ Labor saving machinery appears to have solved the farm labor problem of Eastern Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska and Towa, at least in so far as the protifém applies to labor needed in the immense har- vest which is being gathered or is ripening in those States, In Eastotn Montana, the Dakotas and Minne- ~ sota there is actually a surplus of farm labor at thie time, and the over. flow is drifting southward. A scene I witnessed in Missoula, Mont. a few days ago is illustrative of conditions in the great Northwest- ern wheat fields. The main street of the town was jammed with automo- biles run by farmers, who had come in to employ harvest hands. Most of the care were of the big five and seven passenger variety, Along the sidewalk for two bibcks were groups of men, most of them smoking cigar- ettes, all comfortably dressed, ready to offer their services in the harvest fields for from $6 to $5.33 a day of ten hours, with 60 per cent. added for overtime or Sunday work. Last year, I was told, farmers and ranchmen had to bid against each other for the haughty harvest hands, On the day I was in Missoula the supply exceeded the demand, and the farmers and ranchmen, probably by agreement, dropped the sgale of wages to $4.50 a day. Many of the workers held out for ® a day and got it. One rancnman who was driving a new Cadillac car hired ten men at 4.60 a day by prom- ising ice cream in unlimited quanti- tles for dinner and supper every day and sleoping quarters equipped with Shower baths. He had to guarantee one of the men he hired, a gigantic Swede, eight eggs for breakfast in addition to potatoes, bread, pancakes and coffee, The men who fallpd to get jobs in the harvest flelds easily obtained em- ployment offered by forest rangers whd were looking for help in fighting forest fires, which were sweeping cver the mountains of Northern Mun:ana, There were great forest fires: in Northern California, Wash.ngton and Montana as I passed through, and the Government was scouring the country for men to control and ex- Unguish the flames, After riding for days and nights through wheat fields stretching as far as the visian extended in all direc- tons, it appeared to me, a tenderfoot, that the price of flour ought to drop next winter, especially as a consid- erable proportion of last year's crop Je still stored in Northwestern and Westefn grain ‘elevators. I wus told that nearly all the Equity elevators in South and North Dakota, owned by the farmers, are full of wheat, ‘The farmers claim they cannot get cars to ship the wheat, but others with whom I talked said the farmers had held their grain for higher prices last year in anticipation of a great export trade. Undoubtedly, when this harvest js all in there will be a glut of wheat in the great wheat States. In fact, there is some question in South and North Dakota and Minac. @ota as to where the wheat can be stored. In view of the great stock of wheat on hand, Northwestern farmers cut down their wheat acreage this year) and wentsin for corn, The result is that the cbrn crop of the Northwes which is not as favorable to corn us Nebraska, Kansas, lowa and IJH- nois—will be overwhelming this fall, if the farmers get any Kind of favorable break in the weather, A wet, late spring hurt ‘the corn crop over wide arens, but fields which fatled early were replanted and in most of the replanted sectors corn {s as high and healthy as that which survived the discouraging spring conditions, A trip through Iowa, Illinois and Indiana is enough to mako a city dweller belleve that there Is enough corn in those three Btat# to feed the whole world. Returning to the question of farm labor, !t may be sald of the Great Sorthwest—the land of square tele- graph poles and thick ankles, that {t is rapidly becoming motorized und tractorized, Many horse-drawn reap- evs and plows are seen.in the fields, but horses are rapidly being replaced by tractors which perform about every sort of task that was formerly done with the aid of horses and per- form those tasks more expeditiously and thoroughly than horses can, was told that a tractor on a farm nefforms the labor that used to take the services of five men working from sunrise to sunset. A majority of the tractor farming implements one sees in passing through the Northwest are new. The | bright paint still glistens in the sun- Nght fOn' eldotracks at nearly all stations are flat cars of tractor ma- chinery awaiting unloading, At one point in Minnesota our east bound passenger train passed on a side track # traim of 72 flat cars carrying tractor implements of various kinds s \ ward bound, 5 RES and new threshing machines west-| WORTH OF JEWELRY DEALER DEGLARES One Man,’ Former Customer, ‘Examining Gems When Three Conferedates Entered Room. Detectives have been investigating the complaint of Oscar Kookses, an. {tinerant diamond merchant that ho room at No, 100 West 118th Street last Saturday afternoon and that $45,- 000 worth of diamonds and watches were stolen from him. The police to-day refused to say anything about the result of the investigation, Kook ses was silent, saying he had been ad- vised, by the police to say nothing. Neighbors say Kookses made an outcry at 3 o'clock Saturday after- noon and appeared before his home crying out that hé had been robbed by a visitor he recognized as a former customer and three other men. There ‘was a bruise across ihis forehead which he said one of the robbers had inflicted with the butt of a revolver when he disobeyed their order to ‘throw up his hands and instead called for help, Kookses formerly had a diamond shop in Maiden Lane. He gave ig up recently and made his headquarters @t the house on 118th Street, where he roomed with Mra. Roomberg. Thers are twoother boarders in the house. According to Kooksea’ story to the nefighbors, he was showing the for- mer customer unset diamonds from a. large gem wallet when two other mon entered Into the room. One of thom Misplayed a badge and said he was a ‘detective looking for stolen jewels. Kookses said he thrust back his wallet into his pocket and backed into a corner, When he called out for holy he was struck down, the wallet was taken from him and his birewu drawers rifled. Mra. Roomberg and the boarders Charles Marka and Harry Levine said they had heard a disturbance in Kookses room, according to. the neighbors and ran to his assistanc but when they entered he was alone, He told them, they say, that the rob- bers had escaped down the fire es- cape. The detectives have the name and address of the man described by Kookses as his first caller but have been unable to find him, ‘According to one story in the neighborhood the caller on Kookses was admitted to the apartment by a caller on Mrs, Romberg, but she was not molested, RENTS IN BELFAST PLENTIFUL AND LOW So Says Sir Robert Liddell, Lap- land Passenger—Lipton Sailors Off on Kroonland, Belfast suffers from “no euch acute housing troubles as exist here, accord- ing to a statement made to-day by Sir Robert Liddell, Irieh linen manufac- turer, when “he landed with his son from the Red Star liner Lapland at r 62, Notth River. ‘We employ 2,000 hands in the Bel- fast factory,” sald he. ‘We provide homed for the help, and the rents, ranging from one to five shillings a week (25 cents to $1.26 normally) never are raised.” The Lapland brought 238 first cabin passengers. Eight stowaw found when the ship was two days out of Antwerp, will go-to Bilis Island. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Morgan were passengers on the White Star liner Adriatic when she satled to-day for Southampton, Mr, Morgan said they were on a vacation trip of six weeks to be spent in. France. Other Adriatic passengers were Mrs. Seth Barton French, New York society woman, who is returning to resume her Buropean war work aftet a yisit here of but a week, and Col. Duncan FY D. Neill, who looked after Gir Thomas ‘Lipton’s interests during the recent yacht raceg Sir Thomas was on the dock to see Col, Neill off. |. Fifteen members of 'Lipton's Shamrock IV. and his 23- motre Shamrock, in eharge of Capt. Albert Turner, sailed for home to-day on the Kroonland of the Red Star line. Capt. Alfred Diaper and his son Nor- man, It was announced, will remain here to ‘become private detectives for the Cunand line. ‘Timothy Healy, lwbor leader, Gov, Samuel the crewa of former Ralston ci Indiana and Capt, W. A. Rambr fpper of th Lamport & "Hull line’ steamer. Tennys son. were passengers on the Cunanter Kaiserin Augusta Victoria when she sailed to-da: TOOK IN STRANGER; HE TOOK OUT $1,500) Max Farer’s Misplaced Hospitality Puts a Sad Edge on His Vacation, Max Farer, No. 2182 Daly Avenue, Bronx, spolled his vacation early to-day | by being kind to the wrong man, On his way home soon after midnight {asked him if he knew any hotel in the nelghborhood where he could get a room for the night. “Come along home with me," sald Farer. ‘Tho family's gone for the sum- | mer and I'm myself, The hduse is empty It was emptier still when Farer woke up a few hours later, He missed not! was held up by @rmed men in his ‘tus livanses. wuneD, Wat 6... Peer rs 3 4, New York's favorite summer play- Sround for the children of wealthy Parents appears to be Southampton, L. L In the picture are portraits of some of the fortunate little ones who have been disporting themselves on the sands and in the waves of the gummer colony of the rich. NEW DRIVE SCHEME FOR RIVERSIDE IS OND BY MAYOR ene its traeks encroach on the he met a soldier with a suitcasé who} leaving in the morning! inspected and le ramipoli Park Plan to ExtendFrom 72d; to 129th Street Along the Line of 12th Avenue, Mayor Hylan to-day approved Park Commissioner Ga!latin's plan for the extension of Riverside Park to the river front between 724 and 129th street, and the laying out of a new drive bétween those two points, Tho new drive will approximately follow the Mne of Twelfth Avenue. Between thd drive and the bulkhead, the dis- tance of which will vary from ninety to 300 feet, there will be’a park lay- out. In the litigation between the city and the New York Central, the lat- ter has admitted that in a number of line of Twelfth Avenue between Pa and 129th Street. Where this occurs the drive will be built right over the tracks, Where the drive will lie west of the railroad the present plan is to connect the few and the old strip of park slopes with bridges. But if the city eventually obtains the right to do so it will completely, cover the tracks. Inasmuch as there are no plers with the exception of those at 79th and 69th Streets, the park will ex- tend right to the water edge. The proposed new lower drive will ‘be connected with 72d Street by a bridge over the tracks WAR EXPERIENCE ‘SAVES COP’S LIFE Foray Dodges Swing of 17-Inch Knife as He Did Bayonets in France. Patrolman John A. Foray, of the Clymer Street Station, Brooklyn, once known as “Kid Maloney, pugilist, probably saved his life early to-day by the expérience he obtained in twenty-three months’ service in Fiance, He was called to @ fur factory at No. 21 Hooper Street, Brooklyn, to arrest an alleged intoxicated man, sald to be chasing his employer, Meyer Pinkus, with a big fur knife. When the policeman entered to get | the man, Michael Winszki, {ifty, of No. iat Hocrum Street, Winsskl 1s! atte ed to have selzed another knife, 17 inches long, and swung at the policeman's neck. The policeman dodged, as ho had dodged bayonets in France, ‘and selzed Winsak’’s arm and subdued him after « scuffle on the floor ARNSTEIN WITNESS” |SECRETLY DEPORTED if hie Former Member of Canadian Par- Hament Taken Under Guard to Montreal, Arthur Ecrement, former Member of the Canadian Parliament, a witness in the “Nicky” Arnstein case, and whe is said to be wanted in Canada to explain financial transactions, was secretly tuken from Ells Island last night and deported under guard to Montreal Orders came from Washington to de- port him without delay The warrant stated that Ecrement had never been gally admitted as a resident in this country and was liable | to become a public charge because of eriminal tendenet |Boma Shueraves One Boy Owns Dog’s Head, One His Tail Chums Fall Out Over Their Joint Pet and Charge of Theft Follows, Tho quarrel of boy chums over a dog has presented to the Children’s Court in Brooklyn a problem of which the Justice who will preside Aug. 24, may not be able to make “head or tail.” The question of who owns the head and who owns the tall of the animal is the basis of a charge lof larceny pressed against fifteen- eeas-old - Fapusel Uneee 98 No: #89" the Madison Iron Works at No, 449 Wyona Street, by Harry Kopp, builder, father of | Raphael's for- mer chum, Albert, of No. *816 Wy ona Street. Justice Ryan paroled Raphael for tria}, Neither boy claims ownership of the dog. Both frankly say cach ts entitled to half. They went so far as to take oug two licenses for the collie, each holding one. The dog took turns staying with each boy. and each went home, Raphael fol- lowed by the dog, which knew it wai Raphael's turn to feed him, A few The chums fell out Inst sphael Tae minutes later Albert and his father) and two policemen appeared at Raphael's house and demanded the dog. Raphael refused to surrender him, “How come?” half, cense.” “But you don't awn the collar and the lock and the license tag I put on the dog which he wore when he came in here,” said Albert. “He never had a collar,” retorted Raphael, ‘A long argument ended with charge against Raphael the dog's collar, Raphael's home. SAYS GUARDIANS ARE LAX. to File inventories fanta's Kntaten, Surrogte Cohalan to-day issued cita- tlonssto five general guardians of in- fants to show cause why their appoint- |ments should not be revoked on account sald he. "IT own T have him and I have a lig the of stealing The dog ts still at of “delinquency.” These guardians have failed to file inventories of the infants’ estates. John F. McCall of | No. 51 Chambers Street was appointed temporary guardian. Mr. McCall will act as general guar- din of Wilton Lackaye jr. of No, 281 West 90th Street, whose father, the actor, fa hie quurdian, under bond of ; Annie eo, whoae guar- Sieh to her motion tin ancis Lb. Wallace, bond of $79.36: necde Schley }of No, 63 East 56th Street, whose gen- eral guardian is Charles Schley. Margaret © umpbell, whose ‘mother, Morgivet f, Camnvell of the Hotel Biltmore is general dian, and Robert. F. De Coppet, _ of whom Seraphine M. De Coppet ‘of No. |65 Broadway, is guardian, under $22,000 | bond, ——__.»____ GAS COMPANY LOSES SUIT. . Injunction te Stop Interference Denied. A temporary Injunction to compel Public Service Commissioner Nixon to cease interfering with the increase of the Richmond Gas Light Company's rate for gag fram $0 cents to $1.25 was ate Increase dented by Justice Scudder in Brooklyn | to-day, Former Justice Seawell has been tak- ing testimony as referee since July 19 on an application before Justloe Boudder only his guest, but all his clothing, some Ecrement waa first taken in custody | for a rmanent injunction. The Justice toon eine ahead ee nent, the total |, the Immigration officials more than| Wid, the “gas ‘company's lawyers ne one being $1. ven his wate could not grant emborary injunction vallepea chet wes pone, & month ago, He was freed under tances except in “His nami rer cold the $10,000 bond pending invéstigation. ‘The case mt emergency, ‘which ice. That's all Y know ‘abous bond was revoked three weeks ago, ee eee Sg: es amen tie rei es kn aetna cena eee atari cae a Ts AL aware DICK CaAMPSELL NO CONFERENCE ARRANGED OVER SPLIT OF ALLIES Tension is Lessened in Relations Between Great Britain and France, London Hears. , LONDON, Aug. 14 (Aanociated Press).—It {8 officially stated that no arrangements are being made for a meeting between Premier Lioyd George and Premier Millar- and as‘a result of France's action in recognizing Gen, Wranj government in South Russia, ~ “France has taken a stand and maintains it, and Great Britain has done the same thing,” the Associated Press was informed. “There ts no need of a conference now. The tension has been con- siderably lessened, and the coun- “tries are. not so far apart to tho situation seemed to Indicate.” THIEVES GET $1,050 IN PAY ENVELOPES, ALSO GET AWAY Two With Guns Confront Book- | keeper and Escape After Wam- ing Him to Silence. Two men walked into the office of East 20th Street at 10 o'clock to-day and confronted Irving Brodsky, the bookkeeper, Who was filling the pay envelopes of the thirty or more hands. |Hammond Smith, the President of the company, had brought $1,100 in cash from @ bank a momenta be- fore and had left the building. The men, holding revolvers under Brodsky's nose gathered up the en- velopes and backed away to the door, They told him they would blow his |head off if he made an outery while \they were in sight, Brodsky ran through Into the work- shop and gave thé alarm, The work- jmen swarmed out to the street. ‘The only person in aight in the street was | Policeman Harry Batehtle of the East He was about t | 126th Street 6tation, forty feet from the door through |which the thieves had escaped, He had not seen them come or Ko nor had he noted an automobile near the door. On the floor of the oMice were found two envelopes containing altogether about $50, which the thieves had left behind in their Burry HOLDUP OF HYLAN © MAY AID BLISSVILLE Mayor, Delayed Half Hour at Cross- ing, Is Expected to Urge Viaduct, Residents of Blissville section are | hopetul to-day that efofrts to get a via-| duct at the Greenpoint Avenue crossing | of the Long Island Railroad in Long Island Clty may soon succeed. The reason for renewed hope {a that | Mayor Hylan was delayed for more than half an hour by a@ freight train that blocked the crossing. After wait- ing for five minutes the Mayor tried to get through the gates and find out what caused the delay, but the rail- ‘goad oMcers on guard would not let him. He had to return to his car and | wait until the crossing was cleared. |SPENCER IS HURT IN PLANE SMASH Aeronaut Is in Hospital at Newport, but no Bones Are Broken, Doctors Say. . NEWPORT, Aug, 14,—Lorillard Spen- cer jr. has been hurt in an aérpiane ac- eldent in essaying a flight from the farm of Reginald Norman in Ports- outh to St, George's School, but col- 4 with @ fence in attompting to take off, At the Newport Hospital Dr, Stewart found that no bones had been broken, ‘but that the Major's hand had been ine | jured and that he had suffered bruises |wbout the body and face, He later went |to his home, | Mir. Spencer was accompanied on the flight by his mechanician, who was not ‘burt. ee ae LN i * tila “L. Toy THOUSANDSTEDUP Beach of Wealthy New, Yorkers WHEN 85 CARMEN 70 BUY 50 On | STRIKE IN QUENS Men — Refuse hays Gapiecee Wage Offer and Company | Pleads Near Poverty. Acting Public Service Commisstoner Barrett to-day ordered an investiga- tion into the cessation of service on tho lines of the Manhattan and Queens | Traction Corporation as a result of a strike which began at 1 A. M. to-day. The hearing will be held at 2,90 | Monday afternoon. ‘The company affected by the strike operates from Second Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, Manhattan, a dis- tance of about eleven miles to the Long Island Railroad station, Jamalea. It carries nearly 15,000 passengers | daily, ; _ Recently the company requested the | Public Service Commission for per- | mission to establish two fare zones, ‘one from Manhattan to Grand Street, |Recond zone from Grand Street to the ‘Jamaica terminal, with a fare of eight cents, The Commission has not yet omered a hearing on this appliéation. Fifteen thousand people who imake datly use of the trolley cara of the Manhattan and Queens Traction Cor- poration had to find other waya of | going to work to-day, All the operating employees of the corporation, eighty-five of them, struck at midnight after thelr de- mands for a wage increase had heen refused. They want from ST to 67 cents an hour instead of from 81 to 59. The company offered a flat increase of 6 cents an hour, Thte was refus. 4 and the strike began at midnight. No effort has been made to move the cara, B. W. Duncan, General Manager tor tho receiver, was asked if the com- pany would employ strike breakers. “It will not,” he sald, “if wo had money enough to do that we would pay the wage increase and have no strike.” He said the total receipts for July were only $26,000, and that the loss ta the first six months of this year was $15,000, Buses and trucks—not olty Pet On —save partial substitute service! aban castle LANTRY CATCHES* CLAMS “ON THE FLY” Veteran Fireman Has a Chowder Party Kindly Contributed by His Neighbors. (Sorclal (0 ‘The Brening Wey.) | SAYVILLE, LL, Augelte thom: F, Lantry, Asalatant Paymaster of the Now York Fire Department, was once 4 ball player, He has a place near here, As he! was passing the wire Iwland flate on hin powerboat’ a few days ago, one of a group of young people “treading out" clams shied « dig clam at him. It flew wide. Lantry reached out and scooped it down like @ veteran fielder, “You're easy,” he sald to tho elam- mers. They turned loose volley after vol- ley at him and he took them an fast as they came until the clammers realized they had expended all tho Proceeds of hours of labor. Then they clamored to have their cla: back, but were met with a Jecring laugh, There was # big tam chow- der feam at the Lantry house last night. —_ INDIANA NOW HAS 2,930,544. = PAY FOR PRISONERS | DOING STATE WORK IS URGED BY LAWES Sing Sing Warden Says Officials Favor Idea and He Expects Adoption Soon, ARDEN LAWES of Sing W Sing Prison sald to-day that he expected New York State soon would adopt the plan New Jersey ts proposing. of paying prisoners of State institu- tlons engaged In State work from 15 to 85 cents a day. The New Jersey plan is that of Burdette G. Lewis, former Com- thissioner of Correction in New York. The proposed pay means cash in addition to all deductions for inaintennnee, Warden Lawes sald it was “a fine stand, an excellont idea, and the coming method." He said State Superintendent of Prisons Rattigan ts in favor of some such plan and the Prison Survey Com- mission appointed by Gov. Smith has reported favorably such an idea, 'AUTO KILLS BOY; HIS SISTER HURT Jersey City Woman and Three Companions Held in $10,000 Bail After Accident: Mrs, Natalie T. MacArthur, No. 123 Gifford Avenue, City, three companions, are under $10,000 Jersey and bail following their arrest last night on a charge of striking and kiting Washington Legg, three years old, and seriously injuring Evelyn Legs, five years old, of Brielle, Mrs. Mace Arthur is said to have driven the car which struck the children, Her oom- panions are Douglas Walker, No, 122 Clinton Avenue, Clifton, and Me. and Mra. Walter B. Walker of Jersey City, living at Point Pleasant? The children had left their home, accompanied by thelr sister Ethel, fourteen, and were on their way to a nelgbbors. Their father is Raymond Legg, a well known florist on tne| g, r North Jermy shore, An they "were | CSTE 1m Mepatation 230,00 tm crossing the street the machine struck if the boy and girl, The boy's hi cut open and the machine ran over hig chest. The little girl had scvgral teeth knocked out and her head cut. Ethel was not hurt. The automobile rtopped and Douglas Walker carried WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Indlana, ninth State of the Unton tn point of pop- ulation ten years ago, now has 2,930,- 544 people within her borders, the Cen- sua Bureau announced to-day. During the fen years since 1910, there was an he boy Into the Leg home edt Es After he came out, it Is alleged, the | nerves of 220.808 in. her population, | 9 occupants of the’ machine doove | ™#*!ine her growth per cent. over away, Mrs, MacArthur and Walter |e population ten years ago, which was Walker were arrested at « road houwe | 21001 876. ® diana, organized as” territory in where they were dancing and later | isin held aia rank in. the corey if Douglas ‘Walker and Mrs. were arrested. Walker | that’ year with a population of S641, ‘The growth in the early decades was very Fapld, the rate having been 600.3 MISS STRONG BRIDE TO-DAY, |=" c#nt: tn the decade ini | Wi .Wea Alma at |ONE KILLED ONU U.S. CRUISER. Str ; Two Other Sallors Hart tm Exple- Miss, Margaret Longfellow Strong, daughter of Mr. and Mra, Charles the Pittawaveh to Resever, Howard Strong of No. 120 East 71st] CHERBOURG, France, Aug. 14.— |Street 1» to be married to-day to|Three sailors were injured, one of Almus Freie Wyant OF Shle vi ‘The|them mortally, in an explosion on ceremony will take place at Btrong:| ho jean cruiser Pitts hold, the country home of the brides| C°MF? the American sisi h parents at Roque Bluffs, Mo. burgh fously injured of th Mins Strong was graduated from) The | Pee ae ad Radelitte College lat year and (aa |mey, Robert H. MeCormick of Dinamore, | member of the Junior League, She me died this morning. The other two is actively Interested In the work of | will recover. the Women's Municipal League of New York, Mr. Bvans wraduat Harvard and in an architect d with Richard Henry Dana o: sity. ad Their Lives. of No, slashed ‘Twe Men Try to David Ruina, 80 years old, 389 Atkins Avenue, Brooklyn, Smashed W w to Get #1 min. A $1 bill pasted in the wadow of a shop at No. 872 Broadway was the wuse of the arraignment to-day of William, i Indian negro, o ¥ » Court on a charge of burglary, Smith told Magistrate Douras that he had lounged in « park all night. needed food, und could not resiat thé temptation to break the window and ket the money. He was remanded. to Jail for a hearing on Monday. He was taken to St, Mary's Hospital in’ & nerious condition, Inracl Nacaprotsky waa found in bea | ls furnished room at No. 122 Put- Avemie to-day with his throat nd a razor in his hand. He was to the Jewish Hospital. in nan Mayor Hylan ae addres: munication to Corporation Counsel John O'Brien asking him to investigate the situaton on Rockaway Point and take — Red Cross Depot Meontenearoe Burn Whatever legal action 19 necessary, to _ protect the city's rights. ie Mayor has LONDON, Aug. M. ‘The American | eirteet ir. O'ftien the distory ot [Red © ie pteet at Pesaonitas, Monte- | fhe‘point and declares that the city has negro, been burned Central the beat TIsHE te the property which la News stapetoss trom Noe reports, claimed by he Kockaway Company, | Corona, with a fare of § cents, and a! hia throat with a bread-knife to-day. | ONS WANT GALLONS NS OF BOOZE They Paver cover Government Pure chase of All Bonded Whiskey’ ~ —Might Cost $500,000,000, WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 ing drys are im favor of the purchase of the whiskey stocks of the United States by the Government, to be held and disposed of in such way as iB > legal. Special legislation and an ap Propriation by Congress would be necessary. The cost Is variously e timated at from $100,000,000 to $500- 000,000, The drys think the big Ad vantage for Prohibition would be the removal of the supplies from private hands, When the Prohibition Amendment land’ the Volstead Enforcement Act ‘were debated in Congress, the pro~ posal of the wets that they be paid for their stocks was turned down by the drys, who failed then to seo enough merit In the sughestign to Warrant Congress taking the action ‘The past spring members of Congtess advocated the purchase of the whia- key stocks. Drys who were consulted fave thelr consent. Chairman Fott. ney of the Ways and Means Com- |mittee, and the ranking minority. member, Mr, Kitchin, approved ‘the purchase. | Tt dia not ‘receive sanction by other | Congressional leaders because of the | crowded legislative calendars and the | desire to roll up as high an economy ; record as possible, ‘The latest figures available on the amount of whiskey tn bonded ware-; hounes are for May 31, 1920. Then there were 68,065,893 gallons, Since . ‘that date the amount has decreased until there remain only about 0,- 000,000 gallons, It is feared that much of the whiskey has been lost by thefts, Rough estimates indicate | that tax-pald whiskey bot- i tlea Is worth $25 or $30 a. case of three gallons, or from $8 to $10 @ gallon, Western Bourbon whiskey in bond Is estimated at about $1.75 a gallon, The least figure that the for, in the 7 A brie esis 5 tecar ales e 5 ooks could be bourht opinion of those familiar with the situation, is placed at BS opaerserd eal S nlawee of some of the whiskey (and are computed according to the cost of securing the whiskey legally), une fora nl cost of purchase ls placed: eves igher. BE. C, Dinwiddie, former Legislative Superintendent ee (re faperi ague, and now lative tendent for the International: Order of Good ‘purchase. Js in'favor of Gov~ ernment purchase. FEDERAL FIGHT ON PROFITEERING STOPS | Department of Justice Dismisses Fifty’ Agents With More " to Follow. (Special to The Brening World.) WASHINGTON, Aus. 14.—The antle profiteering campaign of the Departs ment of Juatice, which seems to have had its inception simultaneously with the Presidential boom of Attorney Gen= erai A, Mitchdll Palmer, will soon be @ , ” thing of the past. Approximately fifty : agents of the Department of Justice in various St who have been engaged in this work were notified to-day that their services are no longer required and were given “the customary notice, Many more are soon to follow. Department offcigis say it Is due ta the inok of funds, the departmental esthe mates of the cost of this work having been. curtailed sharply by Congress, | Howard B. Figg, who is Attorney ral Palmer's special assistant in charge of this division, will remain on the job until about Ont 15 according to present plans, ‘The department claime it ls hampered | i} by conflicting court decisions on the eonatitutionality of the Lever Act, um der the provisions of which the antle profiteerigs investigations and prosecus | tions were undertaken Some of the lower courts have upheld the law, e others have held it tinconstitutlonal, it janned to take & test case United States Supreme Court soon. that body meets again, : ‘LITTLE MOTHER’ HERO HURT. ont me Pains alte. * oo Falls Two Stories Trying to Save Sister K: a. Mary Neatvick, age five, and Annie, her sister, age three, were in a box which hung from a window in their | home at No. 231 South Second street, { Brooklyn, Olga, age twelve, was site ting on the wisdom ledge, taking care | of them at 9:30 o'clock Ruddenly the supports of | wa Giga grabbed the box and a. ith a" | tho younger kiddies wai tated to the yard twenty feet helow, | Annie cacaped, with, minor ‘prulsos gud | the shock of the fall, but Olga was i= | | ternally Injured and ‘suffered from ega= cunsion She was taken tq the Williamsburg Hospital, a1 way ‘At Canal at. aan fa Reiween