The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE BISMARCK TRIB Army Worm Spreading From Canada Over Northern Tier of State BIG DAMAGE DINE [SIDE GLANCES- -~tyGeorse clark | CORN AND CABBAGE BY PEST SIX YEARS! and Clover Alberta, Saskatchewan Manitoba Swect and Flax Also Suffer CROPS EATEN BY FIELDS! | Only Effective Warfare on Con-| figurata Is Fall Plowing | to Freeze Out Pupa That appear indicated to Prof at the No! lege. from cou of that area boundary counties worm ravages the p: Rolette and Tow hit worse than ot! The army worm which tific name of Barat! and a nickname of worm” has been known Provinces of Canada { years. The pest has Alberta, Saskatchewan a. provinces, and entomolog: ada report it as doing a of damage to sweet clover, flax and other farm and garden crops. It is a! serious pest to such crops as Col cabbage and even in some cases has seriously damaged sugar bects in| Canada. i In causing damage to farm crops, the army worm strips the leaves, stems and blossoms of the sweet clover, alfalfa and flax while in the | growing stage, and later when the plants have matured the worm does its damage by stripping off the seed pods. The damage to corn is similar to that of the common ear worm, and is confined to the stalks and cars. Cabbage is bored into deeply by the army worm, and for that reason there are no poisonous insecticides that will control it in cabbage patches. The female moth or adult of the army worm lays her eggs on any one of the ngmed plants during the latter part of June or carly July. Each moth lays about 100 eggs which hatch in @ few days into tiny worms or lar- vae which feed upon the plants. It is not until they are several weeks old that they do the greatest damage. according to Mr. Munro. During the month of August, the time when the Jarvae are completing their growth, the worms have an enormous appe- tite. It is at that stage that the most damage to crops is done. Re- ports and personal observations show that entire fields of sweet clover and flax were wiped out by army worms during the past season in Towner and Rolette countics. About the last week in August or the first of September the worms en- ter the soil at the base of the stripped stalks they have been feeding upon. Soon the worm transforms into a brown colored pupa, and it is this stage in which it winters over. The first warm days of June bring forth the adult moth which completes the life cycle of the army worm. In ap- pearance the moth is similar to the adult of the cutworm. Fall plowing of the infested fields is considered the most practical means of controlling the army worm as this method destroys the winter quarters. Some satisfactory results have been obtained by using arsenical dusts on the crops when infested with the army worm. This control, however, is practicaly only when the crop is valu- able enough to warrant the extra ex- pense. A buckskin coat worn by Buffalo Bill when he shot the Indian chicf- tain, Yellow Hand, now is in the San- ; ta Barbara museum of natural his- tory. ————————_—_—_——— oa a | Weather Report | o—. ‘Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday .. Lowest last night . Precipitation to 7 a. m. at “Oh, don't be silly, Henry, that means the dresses.” iia ay AT THE MOVIES | od ° CAPITOL THEATRE Every woman is entitled to love! ‘that is the underlying theme of | “Mother Knows Best,” picturization of Edna Ferber’s sensational-selling | novel, which comes to the Capitol Theatre for a three days’ engage- ment starting Monday. Featured in} the picture are Madge Bellamy, Louise Dresser and Barry Norton. From the day that the Ferber) story swept the country and aroused all sorts of conjecture as to just which mother and daughter were meant by the authoress, film fans have awaited the screen version and their waiting will be well worth the effort when they see the picture. The rise to theatrical success of the daughter guided by the mother, who fights with her and for her al- ways, brings its day of reckoning when daughter has her first and only romance with a young vaudeville actor. She declares that she is en- titled to what e y woman is en- titled—love—and accuses the mother of stifling that love. “Mother Knows Best” is said to be} one of the most human documents | that ever has been brought to the! screen. The supporting company | includes Albert Gran, Joy Auburn, | Stuart Erwin and Lucien | | i | ELTINGE THEATRE “Two Weeks Off,” the latest Doro- thy Mackaill-Jack Mulhall comedy-! romance which is featured at the El- tinge today and Saturday, marks the first appearance of this popular couple as talking stars and is one of the most hilarious fun films in which they have been secn. Dorothy mistakes Jack for a movie star and plumber though he is, it is) necessary for him to pretend to be the ; movie star. “Two Weeks Off" deals with a shop girl's vacation, and into it is crammed every fun possibility, feast for tired | eyes, and stimulant for the romantic imagination, from marathon dances; at a beach resort to a fight between our hero and a beach lifesaver! In the exceptionally large and ca- pable supporting cast are such favor- ites as Gertrude Astor, Kate Price. | Eddie Gribbon. James Finlayson and Jed Prouty. Dixie Gay and Gertie Messenger head the galaxy of bath- girls who lend “scenery” to the pic-" ture. An onyx quarry has been opened near Custer, S. D. It is believed to be the largest deposit on the con-! tinent. i Aged Negress Chases Spirits With Dishpan| Macon, Mo.—(P)— Susan _ Snell knows how to take care of herself. She's had 110 years’ experience. That is what she told officials who appointed a guardian for the aged negress. A slave 70 years ago, she jlives alone and draws $50 a month Pension. Spirits bother her, and sometimes drive her out of the house, she says, but she frightens them away by beat- ing on a large dishpan reserved for the purpose. Blacks Eagerly’ Buy Stout French Scents Akassa, Nigeria, French Equatorial Africa, May 31.—(4—Perfumery is one Of the best little businesses of the civilized French in this land of black tribes. Good stout smells are the ¢as- iest to sell. Liquid perfumes with alcohol in them are growing in favor. although highly scented creams and powders and pommade for the hair are popu- lar. The perfume business here and in other French African colonies has doubled in two years. The annual consumption runs about 60,000 gallons and 300,000 pounds of other scented preparations. Girls, There’s Rouge In New Jersey Sands New Brunswick, N. J.—(.P)—Rutgers university is undertaking a survey to develop commercial possibilities of extracting potash from New Jersey's greensands—one byproduct of which is a good grade of rouge. Greensand is a deposit of marine origin, largely of ordinary sand (sili- con) but with a small amount of [iron oxides. It is this iron that prob- ably is responsible for the green tint and the name of the sand. This sand contains about 6 per cent of potash, and sometimes a little more. It has been estimated that there are 257,000,000 tons of potash in Jer- sey greensands that can be obtained in open pit mining, and a total of 2.242,000,000 tons available if under- | ing beauties and puichritudinous shop | ground mining also is undertaken. The obstacle to commercial potash production is somewhat too small a Percentage to make an attractive commercial proposition. Byproducts, besides rouge, include sand lime brick, a bleach for oils called glaucosil, and aluminum oxide. Aa DAYS BRING | BRIGHT SONGSTERS NORTH IN TROOPS Bird Students Hardly Able to| Keep Pace Noting Arrivals | From South, East | The latter part of May brings the late spring birds in such rapid suc- cession that one could spend all the time keeping account of their comings and goings, comments O. A. Stevens, | of the Agricultural college, in his weekly bird notes. Goldfinches, chim- !ney swifts and quite a few Arkansas kingbirds in addition to the birds re- Ported last week, arrived on the warm wave of May 14. The goldfinches were noted at Argusville, May 15. A num- ber of them were about the Agricul- tural college campus where they were attracted by the carliest dandelions | just beginning to mature seed. It is indeed a pretty sight when a group of these bright colored birds are col- lected on the fresh green grass. The pine siskins came to the same placc. but their more sombre color would allow them to be passed as ordinary English sparrows as long as they re- mained quietly feeding. A few of these birds had becn noted daily since May 8 cnd on May 20 there | were more than a dozen seen. Baltimore Oriole There is perhaps no bird which seems more characteristic of warm weather than the Baltimore oriole. This brilliantly colored bird is truly ; @ visitor from the tropics for it is almost the only member of its group to venture so far north. A few of them usually appear before the weather is quite settled. These carly arrivals were noted this year at Argusville, May 14, May 15, Fargo, May 17. Fewer warblers scemed to be pres- ent during the warm days. Miss Olga Lakela at Minot reported large num- bers of black-and-white warblers, May 12. The writer had seen a few since May 10, but not any number of them. Miss Lakela also saw the blackpoll warbler and redstart May 12, and on May 18 the Cape May and black-throated green warbler, the lat- ter being one of the rare species here. The redstart had been seen at Argus- ville May 10, but the most of them are to be expected about May 25 to 30. The Wilson warbler was observed at Fargo May 13, Argusville May 17, Minot May 19. ‘rhe yellow throat at Argusville May 13 and Fargo May 17. House wrens have been rather late and not common according to the writer's observations. They were re- Ported at Argusville, April 30, James- town, May 10, Minot, May 12, Fargo May 17. Bank swallows were seen at Minot, May 12, Tower City, May 13. The bobolink was noted at Argusville. May 11, Fargo. Tower City and Fair- dale, May 12; Herris sparrow at Minot and “thes City, May 10, Arnegard, Some interesting records of water birds are: Upland plover at Tower City, May 10, Argusville and Arne- gard, May 13; black tern at Fairdale, May 12, Tower City, May 13, Argus- ville, May 17, Minot May 19; north- ern phalarope at Fairdale, May 12; ‘Wilson phalarope at Tower City May 16; eared grebe at Minot, May 19; Hoelboell grebe, long-billed dowitcher, semipalmated plover, least, red- backed and pectoral sand-pipers at Fairdale, May 12; Virginia and Caro- lina rails at Argusville, May 18. May 19 the writer heard a song which he judged to be that of the towhec. A little later he came upon the bird scratching vigorously among the leaves in its characteristic man- ner. They were scen at Argusville, May 11. The eastern towhee seems to be a rather rare migrant in this Part of the state, only a few being seen in a season. The so-called arc- tic towhee was reported at Arnegard, May 7, Minot, May 10. This is a common summer resident in the west- ling, which is one of the commonest | prairie birds of the west, was scen |at Arnegard, May 13. MODERN TIME STUDY Watt: When was your new baby born? Knott: Between the second pay- ment on the radio and the eighth on the auto.—The Pathfinder. By Williams ern part of the state. The lark bunt- | 9. ACROSS 1. Tepid 3. Redece 18, ‘open Worthless One Recipient of @ itt hod of love at; Son of Seth aw Chemical osm: | 1 for gold 4). La a votes 42, Disease of does 44, Kiln for drying hops Front part of the thighs apee Spanish ressel 48. Progenitor €8, Child's plays hing 69. Parliament 7% Combination Ineline In old time Rock ry Mentally sound 16, Sclution of Yesterday's Puzzle it, Make amends | | Daily Cross-word Puzzle | Jadement , Sea robber 31, Fragment 38. 014 German Ocetdent = The maple tree 5. Pp: 3. Ostrich 3 Inventor of the telegraph 5. Morning re Elaborate voe gal solo 6. S. Mountain lakes Orga: 6 of Age 31. Point of the compass ‘GOLD BULLETS By CHARLES G. BOOTH SYNOPSIS: Faced by strong circumstantial evidence pointing to Jerry Ogden as the slayer of his father, Lucy, his fiancee, loy- ally comes to his defense. She challenges the police theories and induces Luther MacNair, famous retired detective, to investigate the slaying. Her uncle, John Pee- bles, is awakened carly in the morning by a prowler in his den. He grapplcs with the intruder but the latter escapes just before MacNair unexpectedly enters the room. Peebles reveals that the burglar tried to steal the famous Alex Peterson revolver loaded with gold bullets—a weapon that has become mysteriously linked eg the murder of Andrew Og- len. CHAPTER 10 A DROP OF BLOOD “Where is the revolver?” MacNair demanded. “I think I am lying on it,” I said. A small metallic object was pressing into the small of my back. “Here it is. ‘The rascal had it leveled on me when I hit him with the golf club. He dropped it and used his own gun on MacNair looked the pistol over. “Queer, he should have known you had it.” I nodded. “It’s just another of the many queernesses we have to explain. I'm glad you happened along. You'd better stay for breakfast. If it hadn't been for Lucy”—patting her hand and being kissed in return—“and you and Mrs. Moffit I'd be past caring about breakfasts.” “No, thanks,” he declined. “It's nearly dawn. I want to have a look around the Ogden grounds before Deacon and his men mess things up. | “An excellent point!” I remarked. “It hadn't occurred to me. Our task is again simplified; we look for a man with a scratch on an exposed Part of his body.” “Hardly as simple as that,” Mac- Nair drawled “What do you mean?” I exclaimed, struck by his tone. “I mean if we were to find a man with a scratch on, say, his wrist, it wouldn't necessarily follow that he'd killed Andrew Ogden. At this, MacNair pulled up his right sleeve and revealed a red welt two inches long on the under side of his wrist. “What do you say to that?” he chuckled. “Good Lord!” I exclaimed. “How did you get it?” “Coming through the window just now. You must trim that briar rose of yours, Peebles.” “Oh,” I said in abashed tones. “I'm sorry. I've always been skeptical of es value of circumstantial evidence, 00.” “But you shouldn't be,” he informed me bluntly. “It's generally depend- able. Unfortunately, circumstantial evidence is subject to human inter- pretation. Coincidence is the biggest maggot in the circumstantial cheese. Make allowances for coincidence and you'll get along nicely with circum- stantial evidence. I shall still look for a man with a scratch, Peebles.” MacNair tore a scrap of blotting paper from my desk pad, absorbed the of blood and placed the scrap in an envelope, which he pocketed. When I had dismissed Mrs. Moffit and Lucy had brought me my dress- ing gown, I picked up the gold- mounted revolver. I cjected the cart- ridges into my palm. It was my in- tention to extract the powder from Jazz-Conscious Orient Will See Native Cuties in Broadway Show By HORTENSE SAUNDERS New York, May 31—(NEA)—This year, Ruth Sato is a dancer, but next year she will be a producer—if her Plans materializ—not on Broadway, but in the land of the cherry blos- soms. She is the only Japanese chorus girl on Broadway, but in spite of her slant eyes, her slight, narrow body, her kimonos and her obvious orien- tal lineage, she is American in spirit. Nimble as her fect are, her mind is even more so. She plans to carry the American musical comedy to Japan. Now, under the popular American conception of what the Orient con- siders good moral entertainment, it is difficult to imagine a Broadway mu- sical show full of bare-legged cuties gyrating to Tin Pan Alley tunes and showering fast American wise-cracks on an audience of unemotional Jap- anese. They Like the Charleston But our idea of Nippon is all wrong. “Why, in the last few years, jazz music has become very popular in Japan,” Miss Sato declared. “My friends there say they think the Charleston is a most fascinating dance. There are big cabarets and night clubs in the Orient, and when we can’t find cnough musicians in Japan, we get them from the English settlements in China. “I know my people will like musi- cal comedy. The costumes are very decorative and I'll see that the girls are fairly well covered. Nudity would shock a Japanese audience—not mor- ally, mind you, but they would con- sider it inappropriate and in very bad taste. “Japan is fast getting around to the Occidental viewpoint, but it is not yet ready for the Follies Bergere type of entertainment.” She'll Be “Visiting Artist” Miss Sato admits that no oriental woman would think of such an enter- prise as she has in mind. “If I were a Japanese girl, living in Japan, I would have no opportun- ity, or receive no encouragement to put myself before the public this way. But going over from this country, and coming as an established dancer, they will accept me as an artist rather than a native daughter. “They are used to women dancers— no country ever adored Paviowa more than Japan—and she made several tours there. They themselves love en- tertainment and novelty. I think an American type of show will arouse their curiosity sufficiently to keep the box office busy. And certainly the English and Americans in this part of the world, and the tourists}in ord ‘would support it. It will mean noth- ing to the poor class, for they would never have the money for the admis- ‘sion, small as it will have to be. “I have acquired the Japanese rights to ‘Hold Everything,’ the show I'm in, and I have interested some Japanese men here, including my father, in my plan to put it on, with American stage settings, dancing and costumes, in the larger cities. ‘Poet Transthted Script “The lyrics already have been translated into Japanese by a Jap- nese poet who is over here, and I would have to take over only a tech- nical director and a musical director and the costumes. I will put on the show and teach the routine myself. If this venture is successful, we have other productions in mind.” Getting Japanese chorus girls would be the real problem, she admitted, and she would need twelve. “There is no such person there now,” she laughed. “There are dancers—in fact, nearly all Japanese girls can dance, but they dance from the waist up—they don't know what it is to use their feet. Teaching them mneriean steps will be most amus- ing.” Miss Sato was born and educated in this country. Her father, a Jap- anese art dealer in New York, has taken her back to his native country many times for her vacations. She Often Visits Japan Miss Sato always emphasizes her oriental features with her stage make-up, and dresses in a delightful combination of east and west attire. “I don’t care nothing for antiques, drop | jades, prints—or any of the things I have been surrounded with all my life and which are no novelty tome. If I had my way, I would fill a house with books, mostly Russian and French authors. I like James Joyce, Proust and de Goncourt. Housekeeping I don’t like and cooking interests me not at all. I'm 24, but I don't want [ Jap Chorus Girl > | i o Ruth Sato now is the only Japanese chorus girl on Broadway. Venezuela Buys Oil Drilling Equipment Washington.—(?)—If America’s ex- ports of oil well equipment are a barometer of production activities Venezuela, the Dutch East Indies and British India are the chief centers of drilling operations at present. Rumania is well up in the depart- ment of commerce list, with Colum- bia, Australia and South Africa next ier. Derelicts Deserting London Embankments London, May 31—(7)—Old melo- dramas whose scenes of London at night showed miserable creatures sleeping huddled in doorways or slink- ing along the embankment looking for an empty bench, would not be true to life now, says the London County Council. Its survey this year showed only 31 persons “sleeping out.” But the problem of the homeless Pesists, for the same census discov- ered 14,000 sleeping in common lodg- ing houses, while there were 900 more in casual wards. Some critics of the figures point out that the open air survey was made in the midst of the coldest weather of an unusually severe winter. SARGON PROVED FRIEND IN NEED “Sargon is one of the best friends I ever had because it proved itself when I needed it most. I suffered eight years with stomach trouble and became dreadfully weak, nervous and :|[ OUT OUR WAY Highest wind velocity .... . Temperature Cloudy ¢ PtCldy LCAINT FIGGER IT, WES—TH' Bors 15 ALL ASAIN THET RICH WIDDER 1S STUCK ON ME — BOT 1 CAINT SEE WHOT SHE SEES IN A Homer, STOVE UP, UNEDICATED OoMB OL Fossil UKE ME. L CAINT ONDERSTAND WELL, L CANT ETHER > STIFEY ~— OF? WHYAUHS NOW I-1 DONT MEAN IT TH T-T- WELL I MEANT A-A- NOW DONT MISUN ~— L MEANT THAT~THAT~ ‘That was my object in getting here at this. ungodly hour. ‘.'vidence evaporates. Get on the job early,’ is one of the maxims of my profession. There's another I'm fond of. too. ‘Stick to your job until it’s finished.’” He mirthlessly. “There, Peebles! I've taught you how to be @ successful detective in two lessons. Write ‘em down.” They helped me into a chair. The window, I saw had been neatly cut dish “Yl do it,” Lucy offered, when I had drunk. “Miss Lucy,” my housekeeper whis- pered, “you are in your nighty.” “Of course Iam. Uncle John is in them, as I am averse to keeping more than one loaded weapon in the house, but MacNair objected. “I wanted a pistol expert to go over the revolver and the cartridges. An expert may be able to give us some hint as to where they came from. Never mind reloading the revolver.” “How stupid of me!” I cried. “I never thought of getting an expert to look at them.” As I handed him the revolver and the cartridges one of the latter caught my eye and I drew it sharply back. “Hello!” I exclaimed. “This car- tridge has been tampered with.” I dug the bullet out with a jack- knife and looked for the powder. ‘There was none. Instead, I saw what was evidently a wad of paper and I Poked at it with-a pin. It came out reluctantly. “A message, Uncle John!” Lucy cried ecstatically. for me. Ri oh.) 3 “Jerry!” Lucy echoed. ‘ to get married for a long time yet.” Turkish Love Terms Sugary and Polite Stamboul, Turkey, May 31—()— Members of the English ject one's affections: “My sap” (with quite a different in- tonation from America’s use of sap- head); “my eye” (this, too, the anti- Podes from the Anglo-American “Oh, fg yee ol at ae my liver”; “my sugar’; “ my eyes,” and “interior of my soul.” ” ‘Turkish who are proper! approached in 4 above language with “my little lion” for bearded respond their cavaliers, and “my one” for their husbands. GO FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO D. B.C, In the summer class at Dakota better-paying posi- C., with its NESS ba Y Jeng Ser (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) es TRWiLAMS WHEN WHAT COMES UP WONT GO DOWN ora oA june,3-10, Write F, L. Weine, tes., 806 Front &., Fargo, ©