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INDICTED
IN PLOT TO SHIP
ARMS TO IRELAND
Col. N. H. Thompson, Son-in-
Law of Ambassador
Harvey, Accused.
SHIP SEIZED YEAR AGO
4o5 Machine Guns in Coal
BunkerS for Sim Fein,
y Is Charge
SHIP SEIZED YEAR AGO

TRENTON, n. j., June 19.-Col
Marcellus II. Thompson, Vice Presi-
dent and active head OF the Auto
Ordnance Company OF New York and
son-in-law Of Col. George Harvey
American Ambassador to Great Brit
ain, has been indicted ny the Fed
} eral Grand Jury here on a charge
of conspiracy to ship arms to ireland
in violation OF the neutrality laws.
The announcement was made to-
day by Assistant United States Dis
trict Attorney Thomas V. Arrow
smith.
Indictments also have been re-
turned against the Auto Ordnance
Company and seven cher individuals
on the same charge as the result of
the seizure at Hoboken last June Of
the Cosmopolitan Line freighter East
Side, in the coal 1kers of which
were found 1876 machine guns. The
guns were alleged TO have been des-
tined for use by the Sim Fein in Ire
land. The other individuals indicted
are:
Frank Williams, alias Lewrence
NDe Lacy, alias Lawrence Pierce, who
pis alleged to have paid for the ship
ment of guns. and his brother. Fred
Williams. alias Edward De Lacy.
vino is alleged TO nave been implicated
In the purchose of the guns. Both
are no believed to be in Ireland.
George Gordon Rorke, a salesman,
of Washington, who is alleged to
have placed an order for the guns
" Frank j. Merkling, Secretary of the
Auto Ordnance Company.
Frank B. Ochsenriter of New York
and Washington, who is accused OF
placing the first order for some of the
guns with the Auto Ordnance Com
pany.
John Culhane, a truckman OF New
York, who is alleged to have carted
the guns from the American Railway
Express Company in New York to
his storehouse in the Bronx for Frank
williams.
A Mr.. Brophy, whose first name is
unknown to the Federal authorities,
who is alleged to have carted the ship
ment from Culhane's storehouse to the
east side.
The guns were manufactured by the
Colts Patent Arms Company of Hart
ford, Conn, and are alleged to have
been sold by the Auto Ordnance Com
pany. Their inventor is said to be
Gen. John T. Thompson. father OF
Col Thompson.
4, There was considerable mystery
about the guns after their seizure, and
an investigation was started by the
United States Shipping Board and the
Department of Justice.
Frank Williams claimed ownership
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HUTCH|SON MAKES
Il FOR SANDWICH
QUALIFYING ROUND
Walter Hagen, in Superb
Form, Turns in Morning
Card of Is.

SANDWICH, June 1s.-Jock Hut
Gibson, the American who holds the
British golf championship, made the
Princes course in II to-day in the
qualifying round OF the tournament
for the open cup. c. l.. Van Week OF
New York went around in 30.
Sensational golf followed the lead
taken by Hagen, first TO turn in his
card with a 75, and his score was
bettered by another more sensational
round by Roger Wethered, who went
around in 10.
Abe Mitchell came along then with
II. and George Duncan followed
with an 81.
SANDWICH, June 1s (Associated
Press) Qualifying play in the British
Open Golf Championship Tournament
Was started this morning under ideal
weather conditions. A gentle west
wind swept the two cOurseg-the
Princes and Royal st. George's-and
the turf was In excellent condition,
More than 200 competitors started
out with the hope of qualifying in
this, the greatest solfing event of the
J ear. The eighty turning in the low
est cards for to-day's and to-mor-
rows medal play will be eligible for
the match play Thursday and Friday.
Jock Hutchison, the American who
won the open last year, is defending
his title, and the United States is
represented by two other strong
players in Jim Barnes and Walter
Hagen.
Hagen had a most successful round
turning in a card of rs for the Prince
course. BE went out in 81, taking the
first six holes in fours. and playing
superb golf. He was able TO do the
homeward trip in Ss. despite his lack
Of luck with several long puts.
The Princes course measures
6, $50 yards, and the Royal st,
Georges. 6.616.
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MIGHT HAVE SAVED
GIUSEPPE VAROTTA
Witness Admits the Truth
When Arrested Would
Have Prevented Murder.

Roberto Raftacle, condemned to
death for the part he took in the kid .
mapping and murder of Giuseppe
Varotta OF No. S5i East 18th Street.
resumed the witness stand to-day in
the trial OF Antonio Marino, also
charged with the murder.
He said that IL he had told the
truth when first taken to Police Head
quarters the Varotta boy would be
alive to-day, as he understood the
child was alive then.
Raffaele said he had not received q
promise Of executive clemency in re-
turn for the assistance he Is giving
the prosecution. He also denied he
had been beaten by police and added
that he "never heard of the police
beating anybody"
AZ he was leaving the courtroom
Raftaele recognized the parents of the
murdered boy, bowed low, and said,
."iuw do you do"'' tie got no answer.
DetcGlve James PellcgrinO the next
witness told ol making the arrests.
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rms impostor-who Is said to be
just as handsome and fascinating as
our own Dave-is he.vamp. He lolls
on the beaches at Atlantic City,
swings a wicked walking stick, has
shimmying eyes and knocks cold at a
glance any flapper between the age OF
sixteen and sixty. And the scoundrel
says he is Dave Hirshhe'd, Commits
sioner of Accounts, and only real con-
tidant of John +. Hylan, Mayor OF
New York.
81 met your Uncle Davcy at the
Ambassador at Atlantic City the othct
day" said a young society bud {.
Miss Lille Grant over the phone
Miss Grant is Hirshficlds niece and
Chairman of the Mayors Rent Prof
iteerins Committee.
what do you think OF my uncle? ?"
asked Miss Grant.
81 think he's the most ardent youns
;hing I've run across this summer"
replied The bud. "And he's chain
lightning, too.
whats that" demanded Miss
Grant. Are you speaking of my
uuclc?'
"sure, 4" feplied tho bud. "Did you
think was describing Civic Virtue?'
Don't you think your uncle is a
dodo," went on the informer. "Why
he told me all his official secrets
how he has to catch midnight trains
to Washington and Albany, how he
Is fighting the peoples battles and
the like of that. He said the affairs
Of state gave him many headaches
and that he was getting round
shouldered carrying them-but he
thought he'd stick it out for the
summer If I'd promise to see him now
and then and hold his hands,"
The man you spoke to isn't the
Commissioner of Accounts or my
uncle" fairly shrieked Miss Grant.
Hes a fraud and Wen soon have
him exposed"
Since then Hirshfield has been on
the trail, morning, noon and night.
What Miss Grant told him verified
suspicious which have been growing
since he came into office. Quite fire.
quently callers on Hirshfield so away
mystitied when they meet him.
II want to see the Commissioner of
Accounts, not you" a visitor fire.
quently tells Hirshfield.
I'm the Commissioner of Ac-
counts" insists Hirshfield.
You the Commissioner of Ac-
counts? Ha! hal" laughs the visitor.
Hes taller than you, and he's
heavier and he's balder. No, you'r re
not the real one"
Whereupon Hirshfield calls a cor
and tells the visitor to wait outside
for the real Commissioner Of Ac-
counts" Some are said to be patient
ly waiting yet.
When the Meyer Legislative Inves
tgating Committee began work last
year they followed a blind trail that
involved the activities OF the spurious
CONTINUED on Sixteenth. PaEe)
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LIVE WIRE KILLS
WOMAN, TWO MEN
Stepped Into Pool of Water
to Aid Horse Which
Struck Wire.

NORTH ANSON. Me-, June ia
woman and two men were electro
cuted o-day when a high tension wire
crossed a guy wire in the mill yard
OF the North Anson Manufacturing
Company.
The dead. all residents OF North
Arson, are Mrs. Thomas Moran. Ora
Pullen and Warren Nutting.
The electrocution OF horse which
struck the wire while standing in a pool
OF water led to the deaths. Pullen was
killed in going to the aid of the animal
and Mrs. Moran and Nutting met death
when they stepped into the water to
assist Pullen.
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TARIFF BILL GIVEN
RIGHT OVER BONUS
BY SENATE, 3O-9
Both to Be Disposed OF at
This Session and Bonus
Comes Next. u.
WASHINGTON, June 10.

WASHINGTON, June 10.
Senate Republicans in confer
ence to-day, voted 30 to . against
laying aside the Tariff Bill to
consider the soldier bonus.
A resolution favoring disposi-
ton of both the Tariff Bill and
the bonus measure at this
session and before any recess
then was adopted % to IL.
The bonus measure would be
made the unfinished business,
after a final vote on the tariff.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Mas
sachusetts, after learning of the
action Of the Republican confer
ence, said a move II bring up the
bonus would be made in the Sen
ate after the passage of the pc
ing Naval Appropriation Bill.
The conference resolution con-
talns these clauses
Now, therefore, for the pur-
pose OF correcting such reports
and TO rcassure the country and
the American soldier that there
has been no change of purpose on
the part of the Republican mem
bcrs of the Senate,
BE it resolved by the confer
ence that as soon as the vote is
taken on the passage of the
Tariff Bill the. Soldiers Compen-
sation Bill shall be Immediately
taken UP and made tho unfinished
business, and It's consideration
proceeded with to the exclusion OF
any other business. except when
temporarily laid aside for matters
OF immediate exigency. and con-
tinued the unfinished business
until 1t is finally disposed Of"
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BOOTLEG CODE
OF ETHICS HAS
} "HATES," "DONTS"

WATERFOWL, juno 10
Bootleggers OF New York. New
Jersey and Pennsylvania here
after will be governed in their
operations by a code of ethics.
The bootleggers' convention,
held in the sandy wastes of the
military reservation at Pine
Plains, twenty miles north of
Watertown last Thursday and
Friday adopted the following
rules:
"Hate the State troopers and
Federal Prohibition agents.
"Doubly hate the Black Horse
riders of the famous troops at
Malone, which has done more
than any other organization to
put rum runners in prison and
make the 'whiskey trail from
Canada dangerous.
Don't disgrace the profession
by shooting or indulging in rough
stun.
"Don / rob each other"
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GOV. SMALL OFFERS
JURY NO DEFENSE
Rests His Case on Evidence
of Prosecution at
Trial.

wAUKEGAN. nl., June 10 tAsso-
ciated Press) Gov. Len Small will
offer no evidence in his own behalf
in his trial for conspiracy 10 defraud
the State while he was State Treas
urer, G. C. LeForgee of the defense
counsel announced in court to-day,
but will rest on the evidence Of the
prosecution.
The announcement came as a com
plete surprise. II had been expected
that the defense would require two or
three weeks to present its testimony,
The State completed its case at
11.S6 o'clock to-day.
James II. Wilkerson, Assistant Al
torney General, then asked for a short
recess.
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FREIGHT WRECKED NEAR Az
LANTIC CITY.

A fast Pennsylvania freight train
was wrecked at Absecon. fifteen miles
from Atlantic City to-day. Sixteen
cars were derailed and tore up the
rails for $50 yards, blocking traffic
None Of the crew ws injured The train
was made up of forty cars, ten being of
perishable freight consigned to Atlantic
City restaurants and hotels.
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EX-ANIBASSADOR TO ENGLAND is
ATTORNEY IN SI,2OO,OOO SUIT

John w. Davis, former Ambassador
to England. appeared in Justice Burr's
part OF the Supreme Court to-day as
counsel for Madeira IluI a Company. in
the suit for $500 brought 10y William
Radford CoNle. as 'ruSt." lu bank
ruptcy of the Tidewaler Cool Exchange.
Tho total amount of such suits now in
pr1srcss aggregate il,2Qo,glQ.
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CAPITAL CAPITULATES
TO 5000 MARINES
"DcvII Dogs" on Way 10 Gettysburg
for July I Celebrations.

WASHINGTON, June 19.-The Ma
tion's capital capitulatcd to-day without
the firing of shot 10 five thousand
marines, who entered the city before
noon and pitched their tents along the
Potomac.
Under command of Brig Gen. Smed-
ley Butler. the marines are en- route to
Gettysburg, where the famous battle of
the Civil War will be re-enacted July
and A.. President Harding will review
the devil dogs" in the White House
grounds late to-day.
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YoUNGsTOWN STEEL MILLS AT
NEARLY IOOSS OPERATION.

YOUNGSTOWN. o.. June 19,-With
automobile makers and other factories
clamoring for sheet steel. that branch
of the steel industry In the Youngstown
district to-day began schedule OF OPP
erations more nearly approaching 100
per cent. than at any time since the war
boom. OF eight mills scheduled 10 re-
sume to-day seven were able to get
enough skilled labor.
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TWO KILLED IN AUTO CRASH.

TROY June ls-Charles Mclaughlin
OF Bennington. Vt, and Charles ]. Hupe.
a taNi driver OF tins city. were killed
carly this morning on the State Load
in Raymcrtown, whcn an automobile In
which they were riding colIided with a
tree and overturned.
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SCORE HURT IN PHILADELPHIA
TROLLEY CRASH.

PHILADELPHIA. June 10. 90 More
than a score OF persons were injured.
some seriously, in o. collision Of two
trolley cars At Ninth and Arch streets
this morninE. Both cars were hllcd
with persons on their way 10 work.
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DENBY AND PARTY
SAIL FROM HONOLULU
Driven Around Island of Cahu-
Entertained at Luncheon.

EntertaIncd at LuncheOn.
HONOLULU, T. H.. June 10 CAs-
sociated Press).-secretary of the Navy
DENLY and his party completed a drive
around the Island OF Oahu Saturday as
guests OF the Chamber OF Commerce of
Honolulu. At Haleiwa Secretary DENLY
spoke at a luncheon
Secretary DENLY said: you don't
like to think OF the possibilities that
make armies and navies necessary, hut
we do know such possibilities exist and
they cannot be forgotten by those re-
sponsible for the defense OF the United
States"
The Secretary and his party sailed for
Japan yesterday.
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SAYS GASOLINE PRICE
is NOT HIGH ENOUGH
Must he Raised to Save. Independ-
ents, Secretary States.

entS, Secretary States.
WASHINGTON. June 19.-In the face
Of protests from all parts Of the coun-
try against the present price of gaso-
line, John d. Reynolds Secretary of the
Western Petroleum Refners Associa
tion. to-day stated that the price of the
fuel is not high enough.
Still higher prices are necessary to
enable the Independent rehners to com
pete with the big companies, said Rey-
nolds, here to testify before the Senate
Manufacturers Committee on the causes
for recent gasoline price increases.
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THE WORLD TEANEL nInrAu.

Arcade Pulitzer CworldJ Building, 1861
FArk Row. n. Y. City, Telephone Bsckm4n
1000 Check room Tor baggage and parcels
open sAy ana night Money orders A0d
EGyelISrT checks toE BAls.-Adyl,
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HirShfield on Trail OF ImpOStOr,
Who Is Regular He-Vamp, Posing
TO FlapperS as "Our Own DaVy''
Double" Says He Is Mayors Confidant
and Peoples Champion.

Who is trying to steal the mpesabe and undyng glory of
'wn nmitable Davey Hrshfed Commissioner Accounts?
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lcontlRNSd on Sixteenth Pase1
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ed wages he was unwilling to act
solely upon his own judgment. Ac-
cordingly, on January IS, 1918, he
created a Railway Wage Commission
to inquire into the subject and make
a finding.
This commission was composed of
the late Franklin K. Lane, then Sc
rotary of the interior; G.. c. Nc
Chord, member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission; J. H. Coving-
ton, chief justice of the Supreme
court of the District of Columbia,
and w. r. Wilcox, chairman Of the
National Republican committee.
This commission" Mr.. McAdoo
testified, upon exhaustive investiga-
ton, found that railroad labor HAD
BEEN DEPLORABLY UNDER
PAID, and recommended an increase
ranging from 43 per cent for the low
est paid to nothing for the highest
paid.
sin this connection, the findings
of this commission utterly refute the
charges that railroad employees took
advantage of the war emergency to
wiring undeserved and unreasonable
concessions in wages from the gov
crnmcnt The commission said;
1t has been a somewhat popular
impression that railroad employees
were among the most highly paid
workers. But figures gathered from
the railroads disposed of this be-
lief -
After a wear of war and two years
of rising priccs-when each dollar
represented nqits power to purchase
a. place in which to live, food to cit
and clothing to wear, but II cents
as against the 100 cents of January
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CPOKESMEN for the railroad in
~ tcrcsts have charged that during
the period of federal control the
workers took advantage of the labor
shortage to wiring excessive and UNI
warranted wages from the govern
ment. This clalm has been put tor
ward with the obvious object of pre-
JUDGING pubic oLmlon against rail
way workers.
In the interest of truth it is inn
portant that the facts be established.
Testifying before the senate con-
mittec on Interstate Commerce, Feb
ruary l, 1922, William GIBBS Nc
Adoo, former director general of
railroads during the first year OF
federal control, said:
IAN absolute essential to the
achievement Of these imperative
needs (rchcving the unprecedented
| congestion OF traffic and restoring
efficient operation of the railroads.
was to satisfactorily dispose of the
labor problem.
Railroad employees throughout
the country were disconnected and
strikes were impending everywhere.
The railroad executives mad teSti-
| fled before the Interstate Commerce
Commission and elsewhere that rail
road wages were below the scale paid
IN competitive industries and had
been seeking increases in rates in
order that they might increase wages.
Railroad Labor Grossly Underpaid
| Railroad labor was grossly under
paid and there were many grave
abuses in the matter Of working con-
ditions on the railroads which needed
correction.
1T was clear that railroad employ
es could not be expected to work Tor
the railroads at lower rates of pay
than they could command in the
competitive industries throughout the
cGuntry.- a., .- -. ...-...
The high cost of living had made
! 1T impossible for many OF them to
live on the wages they were recciv-
ing, and it was clearly in the interest
of justice and right, to say nothing of
the wisdom and reason of the policy,
to BRING their wages to level which
would enable the railroads to COM
mand the requisite amount of serv-
Ice and to prevent continued deple-
ton of their forces, with the con
slant labor turnover which railroad
managers themselves had insisted was
one Of the reasons why they were un-
able to make the railroads function
efficiently"
Before the Interstate Commerce
Commission, i'll March, 1917, Presi-
dent Underwood, of the Eria; Presi-
dent Samuel Rea, Of the Pennsyl-
Vania; President Smith, of The New
York Central, and several other rail
road executives complained that the
! low wages being paid workers were
driving thousands of men out of rail
road service and preventing the eff
Gent operation of the railroads.
Commission Chosen t oStudy Wages
Nh McAdoo testified that between
the eo-ordinating demands of the
workers and the managers for increas-
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Next Saturday is DOLLAR DAY in An1ericus-Corne

1916"-these wage rates were being
paid by the railroads, according to
Albany out of commission for sew
the wage commission;
One hundred and eighty-one thou
sand six hundred and ninety-three
Isl, $3.50 men received between $50
and sos per- month; 312,7C1 receiv-
ed from 500 to SIS per month; the
average pay of clerks was $56.77 per
month; section men received $5G.3l
per month; the average pay of UNI
skilled labor was $5S.25 per month;
station service employees averaged
S58.57 per month; freight brakeman
and flagmen averaged $t04.17; and
passenger brakemen and flagmen av-
eraged $91.10.
Less than 8 per cent of all en-
pIoyes were receiving in excess OF
$3.50 per month.
Workers Steadfastly Loyal
Mr.. McAdoo quoted the following
from the report of the wage COM
mission:
"'That there has been such stead
fast loyalty to railroads, and SO slight
disposition to use the lever of their
necessity and their opportunity to
compel, by ruthless action, an IN
crease of wages, is not without sig
nificancc and should not without sig
nificance and should not be passed
without public recognition
These findings of the wage commits
sion that railroad labor was not get
ting living wages, Mr.. McAdoo said,
were the sole basis for making a
wage increase retroactive to Jan1
uary 1, 1918.
Mr.. McAdoo continued:
"Until recently no question was
ever raised as to the justice and
propriety Of the increases in wages
SO made There was not the
slightest complaint from any railroad
We have a complete assortment OF
Hollingsworth's Unusual Candy"
Nathan Murray, Druggist. %
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THE PAGEANTRY OF
THE PEACH-BLOOMS
BY ARNOLD u. HALL.

INSPIRED by the Fort Valley Bios
som Pageant.)
CUN-FLOODED land of flowers,
~ Land of unmeasured powers,
We love thee through all life's hours,
Blossom-blessed land of Georgia.
With thy waving wealth of bloom
Greeting with delicate, sweet per-
fume.
Granting the stranger welcome room /!
Miles and and miles of marvellous
cheer
With hope in all the petals near,
With Springtime's burgeoning glory
here
And gladness and peace djspelling
fear!
Wonderful land of peach and pine,
Our hearts forever Thy presence
enshrine,
We cherish thy spirit-our love is
thine!
Beauty crcsts thy every hill
And smiles on every plain and rili
And thy rivers that run TO the
oceans will
Beautiful land of Georgia!
Woods and Towering orchards, too.
Thy banners of bloom meath arching
blue
Arc blessing and reckoning US anew.
BlossOm-glad land of Georgia.!
-Wadlcy, Ga.
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Still MORE CORN,
CEORCIAOUTLOOK
Industrial Bulletin Says Indica-
tons Are For Small Cotton
Crop

ATLANTA, March l6.-P0inting
out that in the increased building ac
tivity noted throughout Georgia, an
Improvement in conditions was re-
vealed, the Georgia Railway and Pow
er companY's industrial service de-
partmcnt today gave out resume
of business conditions throughout the
state
The statement declared that the
agricultural sections gave evidence
of raising very small crop Of cot
ton, and that farm operations this
year will be on a basis of strict
economy.
Discussing the live stock situation,
the statement says: The middle
Georgia section, which, until a few
years ago produced virtually nothing
but cotton, is rapidly developing in
the production of live stock. Lau-
rens county, in this section, reported
during February, live stock sales of
approximately $4,000 a week, an in
crease of about 400 per cent over
the same period last year.
There is good market in Georgia
for high quality swine. At a sale
conducted at Americas on February
%, so pure-bred Duroc gifts were
sold at prices ranging from $3.50 to
S100, the average price being $73.12,
Most of the purchasers were Georgia
farmers and live stock men.
"fhe corn crop in Georgia increas-
cd 100000 bushels in 1921 over the
previous year, and further increas-
cd acreage of corn is expected as a
part of the crop Investigation move
ment this year"