The Raymer enterprise., 1920-06-03
GENERAL.

when he flew from Sesto Calande,
Italy. to Geneva in two hours
GENERAL.
4 hydro-alrplane marked "No. SIG, .
WIS picked up at sea off Scotland light
ship by the steam pilot boat New York.
The hydro-airplane was upside down
and there were no traces OF any oceu.
pants.
Ten leaders OF the railroad strike In
New Jersey were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury at Newark under the
Lever act. They were charged with
conspiring TO obstruct Interstate com
merce
Franklin X. Lane. former secretary
Of the interior, was elected n director
OF the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company. Mr.. Lane retired from the
cabinet March /, after twenty-one
years Of public life.
Wildalr, owned by Harry Payne
Whitney, won the historic Meiropol.
itan handicap AT Belmont park, at New
York Thunderclap was second and
On Watch third. The time was
~ I.5.
Sweeping denial that Great Britain
was seeking to monopolize the worlds
fuel oil supply was mnde in New York
by Sir Auckland Geddes British am
baSsndor, speaking al the Pilgrims
dinner,
Fifty persons saved themselves by
jumping into life net spread by po-
lice and fircmen when fire broke out
In the Hotel Manhattan, at Paterson,
y. J., a four-story structure in the bus
iness section. The loss is estimated AT
100000.
Indictments against seven persons,
including three women, charging that
they violated the income tax law by
the alleged failure TO mark prices on
theater tickets which they sold, were
returned at Chicago by the federal
grand jury.
Herbert Hoover is being considered
By the executive committee Of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Corporation for president Of that in
Stitution, 10 succeed the late Richard
q. MacLauren, IL has been reported AT
Boston.
A fund Of half a million dollars was
pledged hy more than 1000 business
men at luncheon of the merchants
association TO finance an independent
trucking corporation In an effort 10 re-
lieye The tieup Of freight in New York
resulting from strikes OF various labor
organizations.
The United States is In no danger of
exhausting its coal supplies In The near
future, for about 1000 years supply
is available, s NJ Darling of the bu-
rcau Of mines told the twelfth annual
convention of the International Rail
way Fuel Association. He estimates
the supply of minabe coal at 3.553,-
G37, 100000 tons. Last years consump-
ton, he said, was 5300o0,o00 tons.
The u. $. super-dreadnaught Mary.
land is soon 10 20 In commission. This
huge ship will have displacement of
SO, $50 tons. The Maryland is electric
ally propelled and electrical through
out. Approximately 5000 horsepower
is available, enough TO supply power 10
a city Of over 100000 population. She
has a full capacity of l,Oo0,O00 gallons
of oil. She will be the first U. ). navy
ship TO mount l6-ineh guns, OF which
she will carry eight.
Kansas City dealers of wearing ap-
parcl are quoting prices In their adver'
tising at reductions ranging from 10 to
90 per cent. One department store
which sold women's silk hose formerly
at S4 to SO, lowered Its price to sl.95,
and shoes formeJy priced at SIG went
for $775.
The American woolen Company C.
New York, the American W0olen Com
pany Of Massachusetts and William NJ.
Wood, president Of both companies,
were charged with profiteering In
woolen cloth In an Indictment returned