The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1929, Page 3

ET Seeger THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1929 DECREASE IN WHEAT | Russians Demanding War on China | mer opm and Yo is memory ASK INDICTMENT POR NORTH DAKOTA Supwecsae st) OPBANKROBBERS 18,000,000 BUSHELS ore Gar as | he learned from the India: ; amounts to little—for the reason that the In- says it. |Men Who Robbed Elk River Bank Will Face Life lmpris- Corn Is Only Crop in State Showing Little Change on dians know very little of the details of the affair. onment if Convicted July 1 Estimates Conflicts With Godfrey CONDITION OF FLAX DROPS In his statement that “more than one-third of the Indians were holding Reno and Benteen in check” (he has Gall Didn't Know Pastures Parched and Oats Af- fected, but Stocks Left Benteen's name “Bateen”) at the time} Also beware the “Indian version” | Over Are Considerable basis of justification for such a state ment? My. own opinion is there were between 1,000 and 2,000 Indians en- gaged; but that is merely my guess— based upon data which cannot be re- garded as sufficient to justify a defi- to on this charge. | Indictments against the three oc | Fenway nest reese charges of highway iobbery in con- | Dance to Bill Klitz nection cn ere agi or H. EL Stone of Clear e several weeks ago also will be sought by Mr. White.|Melody Boys at the A watch belonging to Stone was! tonite. DISTRIBUTOR ‘for Internationally-Known Product An international concern desiring to open territory com- prising Western North Dakota is seeking a distributor who can surround himself with the necessary sales force to properly market a product that is needed in every build- ing in his territory. the Indians were killing off Custer.) thing. There ain't no sich animal. Mr. Lemmon disagrees with the ac-| ‘There is no Indian version worthy of cepted version. General Godfrey’s|the name. Even Chief Gall did not | statement is undoubtedly correct, that | know, at the time, that the soldiers he most of the Indians had left the Reno! was fighting were of the Custer com- | front to meet Custer's threatened at- ‘mand. And if Gall didn't know— 5 tack, and that for quite a spell there where did Mr. Lemmon's Indian |*ttorney. went before a special grand aan: oN enna Heres tie | Tee get all their information that |jury today and asked that indict- fo Reno, a! ie jit was the Indian “Broken-Bloated | ments charging bank robbery, under bluffs across the Little Big Horn | jaw? who fited the shot that killed (east) following his retreat from the! Guster? How do they kbow it Wis the statutes calling for life imprison- | bottoms. General Custer? Might it not have|™ent upon conviction. be returned | There is no warrant for the state-| boon Captain Tom Custer, or anyone |8ainst three men held for robbing | ment that Benteen was “tc keep con: | of a dozen or a hundred others? Not the First National Bank of Elk River tact with the pack train,” Mr. Lemmon | tit the matter, in itself, is impor- Friday of $7,200. | The product has no comp: ion, to the contrary. Benteen knew nothing jtant but as showing that the story| The three men, arrested after a} requires no servicing and is not \about the movements of the pack |). highly improbable. Besides Gene tunning gunfight with Earle Brown,! " train until he encountered it on his| 41 Guster had two wounds—one in (head of the state highway pairol, and anes ic ee tt See | way back to the main command after/t1. temple and one in the side,|Mlke Auspos, a member of the patrol,| = 365 days in the year and 74 : hours a day and can be convinc- ingly demonstrated. This prod- an absence of some hours. | which one killed him? Maybe Brok- jare Gust Becker, Roy Salmon and uct has made during the past Elk River, Minn., Aug. 13.—() —| Frank T. White, Sherburne county 4 record in both sales and per- formance in this and foreign countries. The man to whom we are offering this opportunity must have a record of accom- plishment and be financially equipped to properly handle ‘The estimated wheat production for North Dakota on August 1 shows & decrease of over 18,000,000 bushels as compared with the July 1 estimate, Custer Abandons Reno | en-Bloated-Jaw's al hot ‘¢;Donald Melavin. Becker's right arm There was no agreement OF do the business rl ie ot didn't was amputated as the result of} ‘And why call the affair the Custer | wounds suffered in the gunfight. according to the August 1 crop report of the federal agricultural statistician for North Dak Other crops show corresponding decreases. The reduced prospects are due principally to a continuation of the June drougth and to a period of abnormally high tem- perature during July, which hastened maturity and caused some shrinkage, particularly to late grains. Grain in many early fields is of good quality. Rust has caused but little damage ex- cept in limited areas in the Red River valley. Corn is the only crop in the state) which shows very little change in| condition during the month. The August 1 condition of 73 compares with 76 on July 1 and indicates a prdouction of 25,463,000 as compared with the 1928 final production of 24,- 426,000 bushels. Continued dry) weather during the first ten days of | August has undoubtedly further re-| duced the prospects for a normal crop in the state. Durum Drops 13 Points ‘The condition of durum wheat de- creased from 68 on July 1 to 55 on August 1. The forecast is for a pro- duction of 34,769,000 bushels. In 1928 72,950,000 bushels were harvested. Other spring wheat shows an even greater drop in condition than durum. The August 1 condition indicates a yield of 7.5 bushels per acre and a total production of 42,767,000 bushels which compares with the 1928 har- vested production of 69,973,000 bush- | els. All spring wheat production is; forecast at 77,536,000 bushels com-j pared with the July 1 estimate of} 95,822,000 bushels and with 142,923,000 bushels harvested in 1928. i Oats and barley show the effects | of dry weather to a greater extent) than wheat. Condition of oats, dropped from 69 on July 1 to 49 on August 1, The forecast on August 1 is for a crop of 29,714,000 bushels, compared with a 1928 crop of 59,954, | 000 bushels. Barley production on August 1 is estimated’ at 38,136,000 bushels com- pared with 43,802,000 bushels, the July 1 estimate, and 55,564,000 bushels har- vested in 1928. This is a decrease of 31 per cent in production on an acre- | age 25 per cent larger than in 1928. | Flax Conditions Drop A condition of 52 per cent for flax on: August 1 compares with 70 per cent on July 1. The August 1 forecast is for a production of 8,024,000 bush- els. In 1928, 8,115,000 bushels were | harvested. Early fields are showing | fair prospects, but many late fields | will never be harvested. | Potato prospects have declined | along with other crops. An August 1) condition of 61 forecasts a crop of! 9,176,000 bushels compared with 14,-| i { | 805,000 bushels in 1928. No relief from | lustrated in a check-up of Mr. Lem-} the drougth in the commercial potato area to date is causing further de- terioration of the crop. ‘All hay crops are much below av- | erage condition. The wild hay crop) will be considerbly smaller than for | of the Little Big Horn appearing in| Some of the|a magazine) which ought to be} the past two years. shortage will be made up by an in- creased acreage of grain for hay and| sweet clover hay. Second crop falfa is a near failure in many sec: tions. | Pastures are parched and dry ex-/| cept in a few areas, where July rains | have been plentiful. Stocks of oats | , and barley on farms are much larger than one year ago. | Milk and egg production are below | the production one year ago. | For the United States ‘The indicated yield of 34 important crops combined is 4.8 per cent below! the 1928 harvested yield and 1.4 per cent below the ten-year average. Crop prospects declined during July for wheat, oats, barley, rye, flax, hay and potatoes, well as fo: most fruits. Corn prospects have improved. Though both flax and barley show material increases in acreage over 1928, indicated production of both crops is decidedly below last year’s harvested production. Potatoes are reported in excellent condition in the “New England states. | Foreign Crop Comments | Estimates and forecasts of wheat production in 13 countries reporting to date total 1,850,507,000 bushels compared with 1,921,554,000 bushels in these same countries in 1928 when Locally Controlled-Local __ dale on Beacon | tittle Threatened warfare between the Soviet and China brought patriotic demon- Here you see a gas mask-erade which civilians, flaunting anti-Chinese banners, staged in the streets of Moscow. Men and women took part in the parade, demanding war. BISMARCK AUTHOR DISPUTES ACCOUNT OF CUSTER BATTLE strations throughout Russia. P. €. Byrne Calls Frazier Hunt’s Article ‘Blither- ing Buncombe’ ‘MRS. CUSTER IS MISGUIDED’ ‘Don't Take Too Much for Granted Because an Old- Timer Says It’ Again the story oi Custer and the Little Big Horn is up for discussion. name in South Dakota, are in dis- agreement. P. E. Byrne, pioneer resident of Bismarck and author of “Soldiers of the Plains,” and G. E. Lemmon, pioneer of the town that bears his name in South Dakota, are in dis- agreement. In the latest edition of the Het- tinger County Herald, Mr. Byrne ihas written a letter disputing facts! about the death of General George A. Custer and the battle of the Lit- tle Big Horn, as written by Mr. Lemmon in the Lemmon Tribune. Mr. Byrne’s story was written at the request of M. H. Connolly, pub- lisher of the New England paper, an enthusiastic chronicler of frontier |day history. juoting Mr. Connolly’s introduc-| tion to Mr. Byrne's letter: Real Student of History “Mr. Byrne is a real student of the history of this section. A resi it made. the Battle of the Little Big Horn for many years. But he challenges some of the statements of Mr. Lem- mon and he makes some challenging statements of his own. “The difficulties of the man who undertakes to write history are mon’s article by Mr. Byrne. “Incidentally Mr. Byrne di Fiimaneanan, 8 He says some things about Frazier Hunt (author of an article on the Battle said.” Taking Old Timers Seriously Mr. Byrne’s letter follows Bismarck, N. D., July 31, Dear Mr. Connolly: Thanks for your letter and the NEVER wait to see if a headache will “wear off.” Why suffer when there’s Bayer Aspirin? The millions of men and women who use it in increasing quantities Tek The medial peotssicn 1 pain. al profession pro- nounces it without effect on the heart, so use it as often as it can spare you any pain. Every druggist al rays has genuine for the prompt relief of a headache, colds, neuralgia, lum! etc, Fa- miliarize yourself with the proves directions in every package. i i} | at least unfair, if not actually disloyal, | | | \twaddle to be printed in its pages. I | stantly holding him up in the magnif- clipping which you enclosed—from the Lemmon Tribune. We must not take the old timers | too seriously when it comes to tell-j ing us all about the Custer debacle of June 25-26, 1876—especially when they undertake to give the “Indian Version” of that affair. ! The mere fact that a man happens | to be an old-timer does not, in itself, | endow him with any special author- ity to write on matters of history. Scores Hunt Article The article by Frazier Hunt which appeared in the Red Book is mostly nonsense. Hunt ought to have been | arrested for imposing such an array of blithering buncombe on an unsus- pecting public. and the Red Book ought to have been denied the rights of publication for permitting such refer particularly to that part of the article which attempts to deal with the Yellowstone Expedition \of 1876 and the Little Big Horn affair. I suspect that Mrs. George A. Custer was the prime influence in getting the on tap. She wrote the and therein gave out the hint that much new evidence had been unearthed—in favor of General Custer. But not a solitary scintilla of new evidence was produced in the ar- ticle. Instead, for the most part the article was a rehash of much ancient and familiar piffle. Mrs. Custer Misguided Mrs. Custer has been a loyal! but terribly misguided booster for her husband, General Custer. In my opin- jon it would be the greater kindness to let him rest peace, and not to his generous superior officer.Gen- eral Terry; and, that in attempting to cover himself with glory to the exclu- sion of others, he sacrificed his own life and the lives of the members of his battalion. If his well- meaning but misguided friends would just permit the unfortunate man to be forgotten decently, instead of con- For the relief -£ Poison Ivy. If not satisfled, money refunded Sold Exclusively by | understanding “that time should be given Custer to reach and attack the| lower end of the village.” Mr. Lem- mon is entirely in error on that point. Custer had directed Reno to charge the Indian village, and Reno was given Custer’s assurance that “the whole outfit would support him.” Then, without any word or hint to| Reno, Custer turned and disappeared to the north—practically abandoning Reno and, as subsequent events proved, assuring the annihilation of himself (Custer) and his battalion of two hundred men. Apparently Mr. Lemmon would have us believe that the plan was for Benteen to attack with Reno. In this Mr. Lemmon is certainly in error. | Benteen was not supposed to be in on the attack with Reno. Benteen and his battalion were miles away at the time Custer directed Reno to charge the Indian village. Benteen knew nothing then as to the instructions given Reno, nor did Reno know what instructions were given Benteen. Cus- ter had succeeded in keeping every- | body in the dark—excepting the In- dians, Who Killed Custer? | And that yarn about a certain In- | dian called Broken-Bloated Jaw be- | ing the man who fired the shot that killed Custer; it is plain nonsense. It is safe to say that the In-| dians did not know at the) time, that it was the Custer com- | mand they were fighting. They) learned about it afterward. Natural- | ly, they would suppose the soldiers | were of General Crook's command, as Crazy Horse had fought Crook’s men eight days before—that is on June, 17, further up the Rosebud. The In- dians knew little, if anything, about; the Custer command and its move- ments. And, says Mr. Lemmon: “On the entire Custer battlefield only 18 In- dians were killed.” How does Mr. Lemmon know? Who counted the dead Indians? Who kept the rec- ord? Thinks 2,000 Fought ‘The same with many other state- ments. Five thousand Indians in the battle! 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