Rum Runners and Officers Battle; Many Shots Fired Federal Authorities Make Plans to Mop Up Long Is land—Armed Patrols Convoy Tucks. By Assnrlnted Press. New York. June 20.—Federal pro hibition enforcement authorities, elec trified by two of the wildest bootleg ging stories that have yet reached their ears, last night began planning a campaign to mop up Long Island, which It was disclosed had been ldopted as the newest scene of opera tions of runners plying to and from the offshore rum fleet. The wildest of the stories, vouched for by Sheriff Amza Biggs of Suffolk county, involved a pitched battle be tween eight deputy sheriffs and some 80 or 60 rum runners and New York gunmen, in which the deputies fin ally were driven to cover, while arm ed patrols convoyed a fleet of trucks with nearly 600 cases of liquor to New York. This encounter took place at Greenport. Bootleggers In Row. The other story, vouched for by police, was the story of a battle at Baldwin between two contending fac tions of bootleggers for possession of , 1,000 sacks of whisky from the rum fleet, in which the police, acting as armed mediators, captured the liquor and four men. The fight at Greenport, according to Sheriff Biggs, was the culmina tion of two jays of skirmishing, which started when an unidentified *r»ssel slipped into Greenport early **Sur'-.ay morning and unloaded its liquid cargo onto waiting trucks. The sheriff, advised of the landing —but too late to get men on the spot —sent his deputies out to find some traces of the liquor. It remained for Sidney Smith, a citizen, however, to discover the cache, and he paid for it. by the loss of an ear, which was shot off as he stood before the house in which it had been stored. A warrant charging Captain Fred Davis, a fish erman. with the shooting has been Issued. Ear Shot Off. Smith, who lives near Captain Davis' house, heard suspicious sounds Sunday afternoon and set out to do a fcit of sleuthing. As he neared the house, a woman opened the door, emitted a scream and banged it shut again. A moment later the door was thrown open again and a man, whom Smith identified as .Captain Davis, fired at horn with a shotgun. As soon as he had his ear treated. Smith notified Sheriff Biggs, and the latter rushed four deputies to the house. Lying in the grass, they ob served several men loading cases on a truck. They ran down the road, ambushed themselves and halted the truck as it came by. They arrested the driver and two men who accompanied him. and seized ^ne truck, containing 60 cases of liquor. Gunmen Summoned. Word of the seizure quickly reached the whisky runners' garrison and, as the sheriff learned later, a hurry call was telephoned to New York for rein forcements. Ten gunmen arrived that evening on a Long island train and were whisked from the station to Captain Davis' house in an automo bile. Meanwhile, the sheriff had sent his available force of eight men out with orders to capture the stronghold. They advanced about dusk, but were quickly driven to cover by a volley from the house. When they advanced again, shortly before midnight, they found the be leagured rum runners 4iad thrown out outposts, and there were several lively exchanges of shots, the dep uties again taking cover. A half hour later, a big touring car roared down the road toward the house. Two of the deputies attempted to halt it, but it passed them at high speed and as it flashed by the dep uties got a glimpse of g'lnting gun barrels and grim-faced men. This car also pulled up at the Davis house and soon a counter attack was be gun. which sent the deputies scurry ing from the neighborhood. ' Stock Is Removed. Then the rum runners loaded their stock Into trucks and, using tour ing cars for convoys, escorted the caravan at breakneck speed toward New York. Deputies who tried to head off one truck with their auto mobile were crowded out by a con voy car which almost sent them Into the ditch, while leveled pistols and shotguns warned them It was advis able to abandon thoughts of a cap fcrture- ._ 91m 10 « 14 InchM Tnls Soft, Durable ART LEATHER BAG For Only. Valued at $1.50 Every woman In the country should have one of these soft, durable art leather, doth lined shopping hags. They are almost Indispensable and If you were to go to the store to buy one of them It would cost you prob* ably more thnn II.RO. All you have to do to get this black art leather hag Is to tear off six trade mark heads from any of ftklnner’s Macaroni Products and send them with 3ft rents direct to the flklnner Manufacturing t o., Omaha, Neb. The hag will he sent by return mall. pra. Where Bernhardt Rests In this sepulcher in Paris, designed by herself, rests all that is mortal of Mme. Sarah Bernharde, the great French emotional actress. In its sim plicity lies its beauty. -1 Burgess Bedtime Stories _i By THORNTON W. BURGERS. Danger lurks where l*ast suspected. And threatens when 'tis least expected. —Mrs. Grouse. A Startling Interruption. A proud but fussy little mother was Mrs. Grouse as she led her 12 brown, downy babies down the Lone Little Path. Now and then she turn ed aside to scratch amongst the dead leaves, while the children gathered around, eager to pick up any food she might uncover. Peter Rabbit hopped along with them. Mrs. Grouse was an old, old friend of his, and it was so long since Peter had seen her that he wanted to make the most of his opportunity for gossip. You see. Mrs. Grouse knewhwst of what was going on in the Green Forst. So, while she scratched away the leaves to look for food for her big family, she told Peter all the news. But most of all she liked to talk about her children. That is the way with mothers. And, though those 12 youngsters were running about this way and that way, and never were still an Instant, she somehow man aged to keep her eyes on all of them. So they moved slowly along the Lone Little Path, stopping often, for the baby Grouse were too tiny to travel far at a time. Suddenly Mrs. Grouse stopped in the midst of Lazily shuffling along the Ix>ne Little Path, Mother Bear was just romlng into sight. scratching over the leaves, and. stand ing very straight, cocked her head a trifle to one side to listen. Peter had heard nothing, but when he saw that Mrs. Grouse had heard something he sat up and listened. He heard it then. Some one was coming along the Lone Little Path, but still some distance away. Who could it be? "Woof!" It seemed to Peter that his heart skipped a beat at that sound. Then peter heard the rustling of dry leaves as small feet scampered about. He knew then who was com ing. It was the Bear family! It was Mother Bear and her cubs. Peter looked around hurriedly for a hiding place that would be really safe. He duln't think of Mrs. Grouse or of her rabies His whole thought was for himself. Just a short distance to one side was a hole in the ground under a big stump. Peter knew all about it. He had found safety in there before. "It is lucky for me that that hole is handy." thought Peter as he turned toward it. Just as he started for It, llpperty-llpperty-llp, he heard Mis. Grouse tell the babies to hide, and, looking back, he was Just in time to see them scattering In all directions. Even while he looked they disap peared. It didn't take Peter hut a moment or two to reach that hole under the big stump. Just outside it he stopped, and sat up to see what would hap pen. Mrs. Grouse was right where he had left her in the middle of the Lone Little Path. Not one of the babies was to be seen. Peter was not at all worried about Mrs. Grouse, for he knew that her stout wings would take her out of danger. Then he looked down the Lone Lit tle Path. Lazily shuffling along the Lone Little Path Mother Bear was just coming into sight. Behind her were three lively little cubs. They didn't stay in the Lone Little Path, but were continually running off to one side or the other, investigating everything near with their inquisitive little noses. (Copyright, 1923.) The next story: "A Brave and Clever Little Mother." Windsor, England, Fears Royal Ghost Visitation Windsor, Eng., June 20.—Is a royal ghost, out of the ages, to blame for recent nightly disturbances re ported from the riverside folks of Datchet on Thames? The question is exciting Windsor and surrounding villages. Strange apparitions are reported in the dead of night near an old monas tery connected with St. Helen's. Sub terranean passages run from the ruins of the monastery to unexplored depths, but it is stated that there is one passage which leads to Windsor castle. Ernest Scian declares that he re cently saw the ghostly form of a woman hovering about the monastery ruins, and when he approached the figure disappeared with a hissing sound. Other residents report that they have seen apparitions and heard the sounds of beautiful singing coming from the monastery at night. Gompers Urges Farmers’ Union Organization Will Gain Ade quate Income, Labor Head Declares. By International NeJra Berries. Chicago, June 20.—Let the farmers organize and work out thetc own sal vation, independent of the law mak era. This was the advice of Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, given in a speech before the National Wheat Conference here today. The problem of the farmer, who fijnds himself bankrupt because of the low price of wheat, is linked with the question of wages for industrial la bor. Gompers asserted. "You will not induce the people to rat more wheat if you threaten the income out of which they buy wheat," he said "The Income of the farmer can never he greater in industrial wages are either to stand still or go down. The products of the farm is largely bought by the populations of the cities and the populations of the cities are composed mostly of wage earners. An Kconnmlc Maladjustment. "The state of the farmer may be described as an economic maladjust ment, and, that being the case, can be righted. It seems easy to rush to the lawmakers and ask for law. Let me assure you, out of a long and economic experience, that there is no great magic in a law. You will not stop the economic machine and re verse its operation by the enactment of a law Neither congress nor state legislatures can build the body of our effort or shape our course." Pointing out that, although the farm population has not increased in the last 10 years, the farms have'in creased production to take care of an additional 14.000,000 of population, hut have not received an adequate re turn in income, he advised the farm ers to take a leaf from the notebook of the industrial worker, whose pro duction also has Increased. "do Thou and Do Likewise." "The industrial workers have found a way to command for themselves a standard of living that has progressed somewhat in accord with and In re latlon to the Increase in volume pro duction,” he went on. "If the wage earners of our country had not the sense and the courage to organise nobody would have much sympathy for them and nobody would take their complaints very seriously. The temptation to say 'Go thou and do likewise' Is almost beyond my power to resist. Farmers know more about farm problems than any one else. 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