The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1929, Page 7

Yr, c ¥ .. MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1929 au aie Y Nab ND, HONEY OUTPUT REDUCED BY RAINS, BELIEF OF EXPERT Excessive Precipitation ‘ Reel’ stricted Bees to Hives, Di- luted and Retarded Nectar The lower honey yield of 1928, es- pecially in the eastern part of North Dakota, was due largely to the ex- cessively heavy rainfall occurring through July and August, concludes . J. A. Munro, entomologist at the after he had recorded the daily gains ¥per hive and the weather conditions for 1927 and 1928. Records that were kept by Mr. | Munro show that a total rainfall of 15.59 inches fell in the ity during July This was more tl The net gain of the scales for the two mon’ 10214 pounds. In 1927 bees made a net gain of While it was actually raining bees were confined to their hives. ‘The heavy rains probably diluted the nectar in the flowers so that it could not be gathered after the rain. A third cause for lower yields during the season cf heavy rainfall was probably due to the excessive rain re- tarding the flow of nectar in the Nowers. The records show that the amount of sunshine for the two summers did not vary in proportion to the amount of honey produced. For the July- August period of 1927 there was a total of 739.9 hours of sunshine, as compared with 669 hours of sunshine for the same period in 1928. NORTHWEST CROPS VALUED AT BILLION North Dakota Second in Pro- duction; Six States’ Total Ninth of Nation's St. Paul, March 18—The six northwest states in which the North- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Wisconsin City Flooded While Alabama Calls for Help Floods fed by. sudden heavy rains and melting ice are causing millions of dollars in damages and threatening death and disaster to scores of cities both in the north and south. The pictures above show two principal strects in Fond du lac, Wis. Other cities in the district also were inundated, while reports from Alabama told of the lives of thousands of people being end angered by swiftly rising waters. INCOME TAX MONEYS New York Politicians 6 FISHERMEN DROWN RAPINE, MASSACRES REPORTED IN CHIN Bandit Soldiery’s Extortion of Money Causes Chaos, Murder and Death Chefoo, China, March 16—()—Con- ditions bordering on chaos are re- ported developing in that part of north Shantung held by the returned war lord, Tsung-Chang. The situation is to be an outgrowth of merciless attempts by his soldiery to extort money from villagers. Tengchow has reported conditions growing worse daily, with villagers re- fusing to pay further military levies. There has been an attempt to insti- gate a revolt within the military and this has resulted in terrible reprisals by the soldiers who have robbed, oe and assaulted the country ik. Refugees continue to pour into Tengchow while outward bound steamers, regardless of their destina- tion, are leaving with thousands un- able to get aboard. Those, unable to leave the villages, sleep on the hill- sides, returning to their homes in daylight, fully prepared, however, to retreat to the hills in the event of soldier bandit attacks. TROTZKY PROMISES TO STAY IN PRUSSIA: Berlin, March 18—(P)—It is re- ported here from Constantinople that Leon Trotzky, exiled soviet war chief, has told Albert Gresinski, Prussian minister of the interior, that if al- lowed to enter Germany he will re- main in Prussia and no other state. The statement, it is said, was in answer to the minister's assertion last Saturday that he saw no more logical reason for withholding asylum from Trotzky than for Russian Monarchist —S——————s H. A. Mutchler 410 Fourteenth Street Bismarck, No. Dak. Representing The Northwest Nursery Co. Valley City, N. D. Specialists in Landscape Gardening emigres providing he prom! obey the obligations of a gues foreign land. Milwaukee Theatre Withstands Dynamite Milwaukee, Wis., March 18—(?)— Windows were shattered and people living within a radius of half a mile were routed out of bed when a stick of ite against a wall of the Whitchoure theater exploded with 5 terrific detonation here’ carly to- y. The damage was slight. Otto L. Meister, owner of the the- ater, is classed as “unfair to 0: labor” and he told police he cculd not account for the motive unless it was labor trouble. His theater has been picketed for five years. Arizona Man Is Named Assistant to Wilbur ‘Washington, March 18.—(?)—Secre- tary Wilbur today appointed North- cutt Ely of New York as executive as- sistant to the secretary of the in- terior. Mr. Ely, who has been associated with a-New York law firm, is a native of Arizona. Several days ago Mr. Wilbur ap- pointed E. W. Sawyer, Los Angeles en- gineer, as his other executive as- sistant. in The cooperative movement was in- augurated in 1844 by 28 flannel weav- ers of Rochdale, England, as a means of relief from existing unemployment and high prices. FARM RELIEF PLANS DISCUSSED BY BODY Corn Belt Federation Expected to Define Its Attitude for President Hoover Des Moines. Iowa, March 18—()— Representatives of more than a score of organizations, comprising the corn belt federation, met today in execu- tive session to discuss farm relief plans. It was the first meeting of the cba since the November elec- lon, The federation, which has been one of the chief proponents of the Mc- Nary-Haugen farm relief plan, is ex- pected to define its atti'ude further in a series of declarations and reso- lutions for presentation to congress at the special session next month. At a meeting of the committee on legislation yesterday, « number of proposals were drefted. , In calling the meeting William Hirth of Columbia, Mo., chairman, declared it would be the most im- portant session in the h‘story of the organization. OUGHS | DOAN’S "ise° ASTIMULANT DIURETIC @& KIDNEYS Foster-Milburn Co. Mfg.Chem Buffale, NY, For Every Hour of the Day Given Sing Sing Rooms Gold Stripe Belding ern Pacific railway operates produced farm crops in 1928 amounting to $1,053,260,000, according to a compila- tion prepared by the railroad depart- ment of agricultural development New York, March 18—()—Terms of four to eight years each in Sing Sing prison today were imposed on Frank SHOW BIG INCREASE AS GRAFT FOUNDERS Grimm Alfalfa Seed ‘ “announced last night, followed a dis- from figures computed by the United States Department of Agriculture, The 1928 crop values are shown to be: Minnesota . + $326,300,000 North Dakota + 242,942,000 Montana 136,658,000 Idaho .. + 96,222,000 Washington + 148,383,000 Oregon .... 102,755,000 Total . ,053;260,000 These six northwest states produced more than one-ninth of the total value of crops produced by all of the nation’s farmers in 1928, and the values quoted do not include livestock produced. Federal Penitentiary Warden Has Resigned Atlanta, Ga., March 18.—(?)—War- den John W. Snook’s protest against ™ the “planting” of department of. jus- tice agents in the ,Atlanta federal Penitentiary has resulted in his resignation, effective April 1. The warden’s resignation, which he ~ Washington, March 18—(#)—Col- lection of $15,700,156 in income taxes on last Friday sent the. total for the month to. $72,504,506, an increase of $6,411,063 over the amount collected in the similar period of last March. The amount received by the gov- ernment on Friday, the last day in which returns of income taxes for the calendar year 1928.could be filed, was $1,100,000 more than was received on the same day last March. pi collections for the fiscal year starting last July 1, still are below the collections for the same period of the previous fiscal year, however. amount to $1,157,705,301. Collections for the same period of the previous year to- taled $1,174,598,498. Harry K. Thaw Is Sued For $100,000 Damages New York, March 18—()—Trial of the $100,000 suit brought against Harry K. Thaw by Miss Marcia Estar- dus for an alleged attack upon her in his apartment on the morning of Jan- uary 3, 1927, was begun today before supreme court Justice Peter Schmuck iM, Berg, Jr., convicted last week for borough president. Judge Srank Adel, who sentenced the men, granted a stay of execution of sentence until April 1 to permit counsel to file an appeal for a cer- tificate of reasonable doubt. FOR HIS BETTER HALF Blackston: Does your wife open your letters? Whitewate: Only those marked “private.”—Answers. ‘Wood for walking sticks and um- brellas is grown like corn or oats. Forests of small sapling trees are planted and grow to the required size in about four years. If Suffering from Rheumatic or Muscular Pains Make and Albert Levin, Queens county politicians, who were attempted bribery of George U. Harvey, Queens- St. John's N. 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