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8 DIE, 10 MISSING IN STORM.
7B Houses Wrecked at Bradford.
Fa.---Bodies I'm Ruins.

PTTrsBURG, July 11.-Five persons
were dead to-day, q dozen others missing
and more than twoscore injured as the
result OF a severe electrical storm, ac-
companied by high wind and a cloud
burst which swept this section of the
State late yesterday. Inc most serious
damage was done at Bradford. where .
tornado killed two persons, injured .
score of others ana demolished seventy
hve houses. Lightning killed two camp
ers near Clinton and a farmer at Green's
burg. Property damage viii run into
many thousand Of dollars.
Wire service to-day was badly Grip
pied by the storm and communication
with other towns where victims of the
storm were reported was impossible this
forenoon. AZ Bradford rescue parties
were searching the ruins Of demolished
houses for additional bodies. Nine per-
sons had not been accounted for this
morning and were believed to DO buried
under the wreckage Of their homes. Sew
eral Of the injured were in hospitals.
Reports from outlying districts this
morning showed the storms damage to
be heavy. Besides demolishing the
southern part Of Bradford. farm build
ings and oil derricks for miles around
were wrecked. At Guys Mills, ten miles
east of Meadville. practically every win
dow In the town was shattered by hail.
At Bradford one house was carried a
quarter of a mile by the tornado.
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CIRCUS TENT BURNS:
FREE SHOW FOLLOWS
Spark Fires Tent at New
BrunstOick.
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Special Despatch to TINS suS
NEW Brunswick, July 11.-This was
q great day for the small boys OF New
Brenswick. but rather bad one for the
Sells Brothers-F1oto circus, which Is now
showing its unparalleled and mammoth
wonders to the universe here. Half the
big tent burned down this afternoon be-
fore the performance was half over. and
to even matters the circus management
gave another show under the open sky
and admitted all persons who said they
were In the tent when the fire started.
The audience for the second show was
almost twice as large as that of the
first.
The fire was caused by spark thrown
out of the stack of passing locomotive.
and caught in the middle section. The
tent was speedily torn down and the
flames extinguished by the circus nre
department The crowd had left the
tent within eleven minutes after the hre
started, and no one was hurt.
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FREED; GETS $500 EXTRA PAY.
Arrest for Theft No Bar to Wage
Increase While on Duty,

TRENTON, July 11.-As a result Of a
decision Of the Supreme Court to-day,
Anthony Kowalski OF Jersey City, an en-
Company. will draw about $500 extra
pay. He was accused Of stealing a pair
OF shoes from one Of the cars OF the
company in May. 1913. and was arrested
and fined s25.
The company claimed this automati-
cally debarred him from receiving the
pay increase effective from January /.
1918. He was receiving 50 cents an
hour for twelve hour days. including
Sunday. The increase was 26 cents an
hour.
Kowalski contended he did not vol
UNFAIRLY leave the company's employ and
was therefore entitled to tho extra
money
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QUINN TAGS HYLAN
OUR STUPID MAYOR
Ability to Read Doubted After
Veto Of Curb Broker
Ordinance.
SOME ONE ELSE BLAMED
Prattles to Public, Then Lets
Others Dictate to Him,
Says Alderman.

Alderman william v. Quinn. father
Of the ordinance licensing curb brokere
issued q scorchins statement yesterday
on "our poor stupid Mayor who vetoed
the measure because II did not cover all
the streets Of the city. although It had
been amended to meet that point
The Alderman declared the action
revealed the astounding fact that the
people Of New York adty have elected
Mayor who cannot read or interpret
the meaning Of the Engiish Language.
mo doubt" he added. 'the reasons for
vetoing this ordinance were handed to
our brilliant Mayor by someone else, the
same IA tho canned speeches which are
boiled UP for him and which he dribbles
OF to the public when occasion makes
II necessary for him to try to read
them"
The Mayor also said in his veto mes
sage that the ordinance appears to
give the Curb Market Association an
exclusive privilege to trade in stocks at
the particular site mentioned"
The Alderman went on to say in his
statement:
III any sane person can PICK out
where this ordinance gives an exclusive
right to anybody. I would like TO have
them communicate with me, or II
Missioner can derive any other meaning
from the words in or upon any street
than all streets, I would like him TO
explain. Ny Interpretation Of all per-
sons includes everybody. 30 that the rea-
sons given in the veto OF our poor. stupid
Mayor are absolutely erroneous and 60
to prove his utter incompetenoy for the
position which he Is wofuliy faihng to
fulfil as the chief executive Of our city.
HE sits up and prattles about pro-
tecting the public in his statements OPP
posing the railroad fare increase, which
only means two cents extra from the
citizens who ride In these cars. and then.
on the other hand, vetoes an ordinance
which would put under the Jurisdiction
OF a city q financial mart by means of
which the stock swindlers rob the public
Of millions and millions Of dollars every
year.
"Prattling to the public in his child
like utterances, he tells them how he
loves them. and how he is going to pro-
tect them from the evil interests, and
ers in his office. and let's them tell him
why he should veto this ordinance, with
out even giving the public chance to
voice their views in the matter. This
Is the way our Mayor proves his great
friendship for the poor people, by aiding
and abetting one OF the most inimical
public financial mediums to exist with
out proper municipal regulation"
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BOSTON FISH PIER co.
DISSOLVED BY COURT
PREDOMINANT Control Held
to Violate Clayton Act.

BOSTON, July 1t.-Dissolution Of the
Boston Fish Pier Company and OF the
Bay state Fishing Company was ordered
to-day by the Federal Court, which ruled
that they were combinations illegal
under the Clayton ANTITRUST act. The
court stated that desierb on the Boston
Fish Pier had exercised predominant con-
troll OF the fresh nsh industry OF the
North Atlantic States.
Tho New England Fish Exchange was
held TO be operating contrary to law,
and was directed by the court to revise
its rules and method Of operation to
conform with the requirements Of the
Government.
The courts decision was on . bill in
equity brought by the Government two
years ago, In connection with which
hearings have been held. The bill aimed
to prevent the companies and the ex-
change from "monopoiising and restrain
ing any part Of the trade and commerce
among States in the fresh nsh industry
Of New England"
omcers Of the Bay State Fishing Com
pany, a Maine corporation comprising
eight dealers, which operates neet OF
steam trawlsrs out Of this port, were
sentenced In the state courts q few days
ago to serve terms Of one year each and
pay fines Of $1,000 for conspirtng to
raise the price of fish in war times and
for conspirins to monopolixe the market
OF the Boston Fish Pier Company,
which consists Of twenty-eight dealers,
the court says: The evidence dfsclosee
that the company acquired the stock OF
twenty-five corporations d6ing business
in interstate commerce as independent
wholesalers and that II thereafter con-
Quoted the business of these dealers and
all competition between them ceased"
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Fruit Crop Outlook Poor.

ROCHESTER,. July 11.-Not in years
have prospects been so poor for a fruit
crop In this State as this summer, ac-
oording to the annual report of Edward
o. Gillett, secretary of the combined
New York State Fruit Growers Associa-
ton and the New York State Horticul-
tural Society. Winter apples will be a
- per cent. crop. fall apples Il, cherries
~, pears 35, plums SO, while grapes will
be big crop. Columbia reporting a 1872
per cent. yield, the State average being
81 per cent
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STRIKE ENDS FOREIGN TONGUE
Only English Speaking Help Now
in Corn Products Plant.

CHICAGO, July If. NJ. Sayre. super
intendent of the Corn Products Refining
Company's plant at Argo. ILL.,. declared
to-day that one of the results Of the
strike in which three were killed and q
score seriously wounded would be the
elimination In the future of all nom Eng
lish speaking employees from the plant.
This will mean the dropping of the
rames OF about 700 men and women
strikers from the rolls when the plant
reopens.
Omcials of the company declare that
the strike was caused by foreign lam
guase l. w. w. agitators, and they desire
to prevent a repetition Of the trouble.
The plant Is still under guard OF 200
armed deputy sherifrs and special police
men. and quiet prevailed throughout the
village to-day.
State Attorney Maclay Hoyne an
nounced to-day he had been requested by
Acting Gov. Oglesby to make an investi-
CATION OF the riot. He assigned an as
sistant to begin the inquiry tomorrow.
Joseph Banas, president OF the local
union, announced he had obtained the
names of three of the guards who, he
said, fred the fatal shots.
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JOHNSON SEES U. S.
AS LEAGUE CATSPAW
Americans Must Uphold I'm
welcome Rule All Over
World, He Says.

BURLINGTON, VT, July 11.-Charsing
that the League OF Nations covenant
would bind the United States TO use its
armies for the purpose Of maintaining
British sovereignty In Ireland, Japanese
oppression in Corea and unwelcome
domination in many other parts OF the
globe, Senator Hiram w. johnson OF
California again raked the Presidential
policies In an address delivered here to-
night under the auspices of the League
for the Preservation Of American indie
pendence.
'If any people with a perfect case for
freedom should REBEL" he declared, the
advocates of the League Of Nations
would enthusiastically rush In. because
this is exactly the design Of tho League
OF Nations.
Tomorrow" he added, cit may be
Ireland, aided in a small part from the
outside, demanding that Of which we
have made q mockery-self-dete
ton. Under our guaranty we must pre-
vent It."
Referring to the cause Of Erin, he
likened the position Of that isle to that
Of "a litigant with q perfect case who
can get no hearing"
OF Corea he said: "In a year hence.
stricken and cruelty despoiled or possibly
even passive, humble. robbed and weak,
China, whetner IL WOuh DC tne oHc VI
the other subject peoples rebelling. the
purpose Of the League OF Nations under
Article X 10 to use the great wealth,
power and blood of the great democracy
of the earth to retain revolving peoples
without regard to the Righteousness OF
their cause within the Governments and
the powers from which they would be
free"
The Gar Alexander I. of Russia was.
according to Senator johnson, "just as
prolific In idealistic speeches and nebu-
lous altruistic generalities as some or
our modern statesmen"
Denouncing the league as partner
ship with bankrupts. he said OF our po-
stion under the covenant: I'VE give our
assets both moral and material and as
sumo a part Of their liabilities We do
not need them as partners. They re-
quire US. They yield to us nothing. We
give them everything. The Lord has
given US our geographical isolation" he
said, land while internationalists in be-
half OF the league pirate Of the fact that
we cannot remain longer isolated they
forget that the geography OF the stua-
ton remains immutable.
Our position" he said emphatically.
has been and ought to be the command
ing one In all the world"
Or our present international position
he said: I'VE find Italy detesting us.
France secretly despisins us. England
using us and Japan bluffing U.S."
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tsctins the new company. whose securi-
ties II will then own. than In protecting
the interests of the remaining stockhoid-
ers OF the defendant Of which your ora
tor 10 one"
The plaintlff asks that the Interna-
tonal Petroleum Company and its ON
GERS be restrained from entering into any
lcase Of It's property until hearing may
be had on a plea for a permanent in
junction. He alleges that he requested
that the stockholders' meeting be ad-
journed and that the request was denied.
Harris Hammond Quoted.
He said that Harris Hammond. who 10
president Of the company, told him that
q majority Of the stock represented In
the voting trust had been committed to
the plan. He said that Hammond re-
fused to consider his offer to obtain cash
for development purposes at per cent
without a stock bonus.
Wing 10 the holder of 1918 shares Of
preferred stock and 16.S2b shares OF
common stock. The company. a Maine
corporation, has an authorized capital
stock Of te.ooo,ooo. II has not paid
dividends on $4,000 Of the z per cent.
preferred stock and has q liability OF
Sbos,oo on this account.
Wing Is lawyer at ~ Wall street.
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GOMPERS SAILS ON
MISSION FOR LABOR
Will Attend Trade Congress
and Plan for international
Legislation.
UNITY LIBERTY, HE SAYS
Neglect to Obtain Special Per
nit Costs Pianist Trip on
Mauretania.

Samuel Gompers. president Of the
treasurer. Daniel J. Tobin. sailed yes
terdsy by the Cunarder Mauretania to
attend the international Trades Union
Congress that win open July rs at AM
stsrdam- Mr. .Gompers said he would
go from Southampton. the liners desti-
nation, to London. Amsterdam. Rotter-
dam. The Hague, Brussels. Paris and
Liverpool, and then sail for home. The
chief work OF the American represen-
tatves of labor at the congress will DO
to organise the commission on interna-
tional labor legislation that will attend
the labor conference to be held in Wash
ington In October. Mr.. Gompers said:
II am taking to Europe the spirit OF
America Our mission will be to unity
and solidify the spirit Of freedom, jus
tice and democracy. We viii dwell par
ticularly upon the integrity and idealism
internatiooal labor. Our trip will take
seven weeks, and In that time I hope
and expect to see q coalition Of the
European, Pan-American and American
labor organizations greater than ever
has been dreamed OF In the past"
The Mauritania was delayed thirty
Ave minutes because Joseph Duveen. art
dealer, and L. c. Woke. Bible student
and pianist, with several others had
neglected to procure the special per-
mits to leave the country In addition
to the regular passports. They sup
posed that the requirement for the spe-
cial permits was not In force. Mr..
Duveen's secretary, H. w. Morgan. was
sent to the Custom House In taxi
cab TO get permission from the customs
authorities to sail with Mr.. Duveen and
his party. who remained aboard the
ship. Mr.. Morgan got back Just as the
Mauritania had turned bow down
stream and prepared to head for sea
Mr.. Morgan was put aboard by q tug.
Several minutes later Mr.. Woke, who
had also gone in search Of a permit.
reached the pier. but the liner was
then under way for the open. and he
was left
Others sailing by the Mauritania ara
Lord Beaverbrook Of the Bureau OF In
formation Of the British Foreign once
All Hayman and Ann Murdoch, who will
represent In Europe the International
Film, q new company controlled by
Charles Frohman and the Lasky and
Famous Players. and will arrange for
Aim productions on the other side Major
g. r. Montague, Wade Gardiner. Lieut.
Col A. Hamilton Glat organizer and
commander of the Princess Pat Regi-
ment, who lost a leg IN tho second bat.
tie of Ypres; Sir and Lady Hardmar
Lever. the Rev. DR.. Nehemiah Boyntor
Of the Clinton Avenue Congregations
Church. Brooklyn. former chaplain OF
the Thirteenth Regiment: the Rev. DR.
Samuel Macaulay Lindsay Of the Han.
son Place Baptist Church. Brooklyn, anc
Lord Mimic.
Izo Futino OF Toxic. pulp and paper
manufacturer of Japan. sailed on = bust
ness mission. by which he hopes to assist
Japan in taking leading place In the
worlds production Of paper. He said HI
expected to purchase machinery for the
extension Of his plant and to help sup
ply the Uuited States and part Of Europe
with paper.
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HAMMOND NAMED IN
II MILLION OIL SUIT
Injunction Sought to Halt
Lease Of international
Petroleum.
#. T.. WING EXPLAINS PLAN
Asserts He Would Be Big
Loser by Action Of
Voting Trust.

Thomas q. wing. . stoclthclder Of
the International Petroleum Company,
brought suit yesterday In the Federal
District Court asking for an Injunction
against q plan Of financing which he
alleges In to be adopted by its stock
holders on Monday. Tho company has
10000 sorss in the Tampioo oil neids.
az owner ana lessee. and 10 the owner
of the Interna uonsl OIL and Pipe Line
Company. . Mexican corporation.
Mr.. Wing asserts that the plan no
opposes has the support Of John Hays
Hammond, Harris Hammond and Fred
eric N. watriss a. . committee con-
trolling q voting trust He alleges that
the plan contemplate the sale Of t11.-
500, 600 In face value OF debentures and
i72,B0o shares OF stock Of q new COM
pany for $1,000. 900. He asserts that
IL ts planned to have all improvements
made from the proceeds Of the sale
belong to the new company.
Excerpts From Complaint.
Excerpts from the complaint follow:
Despite the fact that the property OF
the defendant International Petroleum
Company has an Immediate cash value
of at least ss.Sob.o0o. which is suffi'
Client to pay for all Of It's stock together
with all accumulated preferred diH-
bends, and despite the fact that working
capital can be procured on more ad'
vantaEeous terms that those contained In
the proposed plan, the defendant pro-
poses to lease its entire property at a
figure which will produce to your orator
only per cent. annually on his stock
with no provision for the payment OF
accumulated preferred dividends. and
which at the end OF the rental period
because of the nature Of the business,
will leave the defendant in all proba-
bility with no assets OF any substantial
value. This 10 q result reasonably to be
contemplated because of the fact that Its
entire assets consist Of possible oil pro-
duction which In all probability wiz be
largely. IL not entirely, depleted In the
course of twenty years, which 10 the pos
sible life of the lease.
Upon information and belief based on
statements made to your orator by Har-
ris Hammond, the committee now con-
trolls and will vote not only majority
of the stock deposited as heretofore sci
out under the voting trust, but in ad-
dition thereto, a very substantial further
amount of stock which 1t has acquired
from time to time. and will upon the
contamination Of the plan proposed alb.
solutely control the new company. The
committee likewise dominates and con
trolls the board of directors OF the de
PENDANT International Petroleum Com
pany.
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BOSTON DOCTORS SEE
HARM IN HiCKSON
Fear That Hope in Healer
May Spell Fatal Delay.

BOSTON,, July 11.-Boston physicians,
while not questioning tho sincerity OF
James Moore Hiokson. the Church Of
England healer. who 10 treating hun
dreds here daily for various ailments,
see the possibility Of his doing consider
able harm. DIR. William H. Walters,
head OF the meteorological Department
OF Boston University says:
"Supposing person with a cancer in
the durable stage allows this condition
to 20 on for six months. believing he will
DO cured through Mr.. Hickson. II Ia
more than likely that at the end Of that
time the disease viii have progressed to
the point where treatment is Of little
avail.
1T Is reasonable to believe that
through Mr.. Hickson man will be buoyed
up by hope which In the long run will be
detrimental and perhaps end fatally.
The Emmanuel movement, based upon
the theory OF combined mental and medi-
cal treatment. may be called q scientific
and proper method Of procedure. Hick-
sons method Il not"
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EDDY CASH QUEST STILL VAIN.
Newton Girl Unable Yet to Get
Relatives Out OF Jail.

Miss Dorothy Eddy has returned to
Newton. N. J.. after an unsuccessful trip
to New York, where she sought to raise
funds to procure the release of her
mother, Mrs. Helen NJ. Eddy. and an
eight-year-old brother. who are being
held In Jail on complaint OF William C.
Riehl, a hotel proprietor at Lake Hopat-
cong. that they attempted to defraud him
Of $3.50 board bill.
Miss Eddy was permitted to leave jail
q couple OF days ago to make the trip to
New York in quest Of funds. She says
she expects that another brother. who
has seen service in France and just re-
turned home, viii come here and pay the
hotel bill.
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SHIP CONTROL RELINoUIsHED.
U. s. Hoard to END War Time su-
pervision Monday.

The Shipping Board announced yester-
day that on and after Monday all re-
strictions heretofore exercised in con-
nection with the voyages OF merchant
ships and the control Of freight rates
will be discontinued. Charter agree
ments, however. must be submitted for
formal approval. The effect OF the rul-
ing will be that owners or charterers
will no longer be required to observe
maximum or minimum rates.
Capt. Paul Foley, chartering executive
of the board, said that formal approval
was necessary because OF the Presiden-
tial proclamation OF last July placing
under Federal control all American nag
ships and foreign vessels under charter
or control OF American citizens and
other subjects to American Jurisdiction.
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MIGHT HAVE EARNED MORE.
Wilson. Packer, Says Profits We're
Below Maximum Allowed.

Thomas f Wilson. president Of Will
son & Co. issued a statement yesterday
objecting to the attack on the pack
ing industry made by members OF the
Federal Trade Commission. He stated
that the Food Administration report
showed that the packers were permitted
to earn a maximum profit Of 3 per cent.
on sales OF edible products. but that the
profits OF the FIVE larger packers for
ne year ending November l. 1918. were
investment of over $7l4.ooo.ooo or Sc
per cent.
Mr.. Wilson said these figures passed
through the hands of the commissioners
and that there could be no question OF
their accuracy. II the packers had
made the full allowed limit of profit
they would have cleared s2$,oo0.00o
more than they did. he declared.
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Panama Tonnage Bill Reported.

WARRINGTON, July IL. - Legislation
proposing that tolls on ships passing
through the Panama Canal be levied on
a tonnage basis was favorably reported
to-day by the House Interstate Com
meroe Committee, Efforts made in pre-
vious Congresses to pass the legislation
were vigorously opposed by Pacific coast
lumbermen.
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DENVER TRoLLEYMEN BACK.
Strikers Demands to he Arbitrated
Fare to Go to SIX Cents.

DENVER, July ia strike which has
tied up Denver street railway lines since
last Thursday was settled to-day. when
the employees agreed TO a 20 cent an
hour wage scale and submit their de-
mand for higher wages to arbitration.
City and company officials last night
reached an agreement whereby a 8 cent
fare becomes effective at once. to be
followed in ten days by q cent fare
and Anal adjustment OF the tramway
operation settled at a special election.
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CHORUS AIDS COLLECTOR.
Police Field Days Boosted at Wall
street Corner.

Byron r. Newton. Collector Of the
Port. presided at q meeting In front Of
the Office of ]. P. Morgan q Co. at
Broad and Wall streets yesterday noon
at which tickete were sold for the Police
Field days At Sheepshead Bay. July 10
and 70.
Collector Newton appeared In y set
ting of the chorus of the "Gaieties of
1919" aided and ebetted by four young
women from the Motor Corps Of the
Police Reserves. There was singing by
the chorus, assisted by the Police Glee
Club and the Police Band, and Mr.. New
ton made q speech. Then the girls in
vaded the Stock Exchange and near by
offices. Later they were luncheon guests
of George T. Wilson, vice-president of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society," at
the Bankers Club. The sale of tickets
20 II was announced, exceeded by 1900
the record made Thursday by the Scan
dals OF 1919" company.