The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1930, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1930 : Harvests Proving Summe ONLY AREAS GVING GROPS IN MONTANA ARE DRY-PLAN LAND Wheat on Ground Not Fallowed Not Worth Cutting in Some North Dakota Sections LITTLE HOPE OF RELIEF Rain Might Help Potatoes and Corn, but Feed Is Done for; Holding Cattle Yet With weeks of drouth and heat shriveling grain crops and cutting down estimates of production in all parts of the Northwest, weather con- ditions can make little change in small grain prospects for the balance of the year, the Farmers Union Ter- minal association says in its weekly grain review issued today. “Harvesting and threshing are be- coming general in all sections of the Northwest,” the report states. “The harvest will be the earliest for several years, due to the rapid ripening of grains because of the heat. The con- dition of corn, potatoes and other late crops can be materially affected by rains and other weather conditions. “Generally speaking, except for further deterioration, there have been few changes in conditions the past week. ° Heat has been excessive and has caused some further shrinkage of berries. Minnesota Crop Good “In Minnesota the crops will be fairly satisfactory. Threshing reports indicate that barley has been run- ning around 35 bushels to the acre; wheat from 15 to 20 bushels and flax from 10 to 15 bushels. Considering the drouth, corn has been holding up well and promises more than average yields, though there has been firing and shrinkage in many fields. “In northeastern and southeastern North Dakota, conditions are from fair to good. In central North Da- kota crops are very spotted and could hardly be classed as fair. In western North Dakota, much of South Dako- ta and Montana condition are unsat- isfactory. “However, there are some districts in all states which have fair crops. Rye harvest is about completed in North Dakota. Yields have been be- low normal and quality good. Barley harvest is also almost finished. Spring wheat is shrunken and light, weigh- ing from 50 to 58 pounds to the bush- el and yields generally are from five to 15 bushels to the acre. Early planted flax is fair, but much of the late flax will not be cut. Corn has been damaged by heat and pastures are exceptionally dry. “A wire from Sheyenne, N. D., says that wheat is averaging ten bushels an acre; that flax is poor and quality fair, with yields of both grains re- duced by drouth. A field of durum wheat near Dwight, N. D., is reported to have yielded 25 bushels. A report from Bowman county estimates wheat, yields at five%to ten bushels an acre. Save Straw For Feed “In western North Dakota and Montana farmers and stockmen have been cutting everything available for feed and straw is being saved as an auxiliary feed. Because of low prices, cattle will probably be held on farms as long as possible. “One note of optimism is that which regards crops raised on summer-fal- lowed land. The Montana depart- ment of agriculture reports that ‘most of the high yields of grain come from summer-fallowed land,’ and comments that the ‘value of summer- fallow is well demonstrated by the Présent crop year, some Montana in especially dry sections harvesting Practically no grain other than on summer-fallowed fields. In these counties most other grains have been cut for hay or pastured where too short to cut.’ “The value of summer-fallow is brought out in reports from all parts of the Northwest. A correspondent in Soo township, Burke county, North Our New National Service \ ©1930 TEXACO NATIONAL ROAD REPORTS UNITED STATES HIGHWAY NO. 16 [st week we described the con- dition of this route between Mil- waukee and Oacoma, S. D. and now we give its surface improvements to the Western terminal. Leaving Oacoma, there are 18 miles gravel to Hehoely then 25 miles gravel through Custer Battlefield, Just north of Red Butte. Continue over 88 miles gravel through the White River Valley to Kadoka, then 15 miles gravel to the junction of ova ee from the east, and 4: to the crossing of the gis, Ba ‘k, Cheyenne River, leaving bet 9 miles graveled road through the western slope of the Black Hills country to Rapid City. At this point a motorist may swing south over S. D. 79 to Hermosa, west over S. D.36toCuster, andnorth on S. D. 83 & 40 back to Rapid City, thus making a tour of the Custer State Park. Or, if they wish, they can continue south on S. D. 79 to Hot Springs and north on S. D. 83 through Custer to Rapid City, which will take them through the Wind Cave National Park and the greater portion of the Black Hills country. Leaving Rapid City, there are 8 miles asphaltic and 23 miles gravel to i2| improvement has been Sturgis. At this point swing west ora 12 miles gravel to Deadwood road to the intersection of Usway 16, attempted in the surfacing conditions of this route in Wyoming. When you consider the enormous handicap under which the Highway it of this state has labored in the matter of trans- porting suitable surfacing see together with a scarcity of popula- tion, you will be able to appreciate the endeavor which is being carried forward to completion as rapidly as the various obstacles can be over- come, There are 21.2 miles gravel through Beulah toSundance, 13.1 miles Ng and 15.} miles earth to Carli miles gravel and 16.3 miles earth to through the a 20.5 miles earth and 18 miles graveb to traverse 2 miles of Greybull streets (Usway miles Cody follow throu fh the Shoshone Valley over miles earth to the east “Se of Yellowstone National Par! miles gravel to Spotted Horse’ and 16.5 miles earth, 8.3 miles gravel, and and then north over 6 miles graveled | 12.4 miles earth to Clearmont. jig Horn Valley over a0 and continue over 23.4 and 30.4 miles earth to sway 420), from which point ‘iver miles gravel and 48.4 It is quite probable “a noone using this route this summer will find that several scribed as earth are bene, eraveled, ~ as this work is in progress during the 7 | present season. « portions of the road de- We wish to express Moorcroft, 27.2 miles earth and 37.6] ation of the co-operation of the way Engineers of the | © maar nn mone |Tarenel RED CROSS IS AIDING VETERANS 70 BONUS Adjusted Compensation Appli- cations Will Be Filled Out by Local Office } Assistance to World war veterans desiring to apply for adjusted com- pensation is offered all service men by the local Red Cross office and staff. The office has been supplied with blank forms for these applica- tions and its voluntary service has received the sanction of the local American Legion. Adjusted compensation has been called the “national bonus” and is an adjustment of a veteran’s pay for the term of his service, computed at the rate of $1 a day for home service and $1.25 a day for overseas service. The amount of the original $60 bonus given at discharge is deducted from the adjusted service credit. All claims amounting to $50 or less are paid in cash. Others are settled in the form of 20-year cerificates, payablé to a designated beneficiary at the veteran's death or to the veteran himself at the expiration of the 20 years. The face value of the adjustment is Plainly stated in the certificate of credit. The cash and loan values may be computed by referring to a certain table near the bottom of the certifi- cate. Two years after the issuance of a certificate it may be used as security for a loan from the Veterans bureau. This loan value increases from year to year. Dakota, writes that ‘conditions of wheat on summer-fallowed land is good, but wheat on other land is not worth cutting.’ “From Divide county comes a re- Port that ‘wheat on fall and spring Plowing is being cut for hay. while on summer-fallow. wheat will go twelve bushels an acre.” Coal Switching Rates Of N.P. Are Challenged A hearing will be held here on the complaint of the Kamins Coal com; pany, Zap, against the Northern Pa- cific Railway company, claiming that switching charges assessed the coal company on shipmetns of lignite coal moving between Zap and Kamins, are unreasonable. The hearing will be conducted by the state railroad commission, with which the complaint has been filed, August 29, in the house chambers at the capitol. The coal company requests that the railroad be required to cancel its switching charges governing the movement of coal between the com- plainant’s spur and point of connec- tion with the railway at Kamins. North Dakota Man To Teach Russians Fargo, N. D., Aug. 13.—Raymond Douglas, Eckman, N. D., a graduate of North Dakota Agricultural college in 1927, sailed Wednesday, Aug. 6, for Russia, where he will be employed by the soviet government in supervising five animal husbandry experiment stations. His present contract calls for one year’s stay in that country. After graduating from the North Dakota Agricultural college, Douglas spent one year in Smith-Hughes vo- cational agriculture teaching work at the Starkweather, N. D., high school, one year as county agent in’ Towner county. and one year working for his master of science degree at lows State college, Ames, Iowa. The veteran may name one or more | beneficiaries and may change such designations from time to time with the approval of the director of the Veterans bureau. These provisions became law in May, 1924, but, notwithstanding that most of the World war veterans made application for this benefit, there were approximately 350,000 who had failed to apply by January 2, 1930. The law, therefore, was amended so that these inactive claims can now be considered. The amendment of the adjusted com- pensation law recently enacted has set a new. time limit on appli- cations and these will now be re- ceived up to January 2, 1935. It is estimated that there are in North Dakota at least 500 dilatory veterans and dependents who should be urged to make application under the amendment to the law. In the case of death of a veteran before filing a claim, his dependents are entitled to file in the order of widow, children, mother, father. Be- sides. the local Red Cross office, the required application blank forms may be obtained from the American Legion headquarters, Fargo, the veterans service commissioner, Fargo, or the U. S. Veterans bureau, also Fargo. SPAT ON FLAG, CHARGE Elmira, N. Y., Aug. 13—(?)—Two women communists in charge of the International Relief Workers’ camp at ‘Van Etten were under charges today of descrating the American flag. A complaint drawn by United States Commissioner Claude V. Stowell charged that the women, Ailene Hol- mes and Mabel Husa, spat on the flag Heir nea profane language concern- It takes about a year for the Bishop of the Upper Nile to visit his diocese, which covers an area of 264,- 000 square miles and has a population of 4,500,000. HAIL CLAIMS RISE 107,795 THIS YEAR Wells County Hardest Hit Last Week; Losses Beginning to Grow Smaller, However Claims for hail losses made to the state hail insurance bureau this sea- son increased to 7,755, according to figures announced today by Martin Hagen, manager. During the past week 190 claims were received by the bureau. This season's total is above the number for the corresponding period of last year. Up to August 8, 1929, the claims to- taled 7,367. ‘Wells county was the hardest hit during the past week, 42 claims being reported from that section. Burke county farmers submitted 27 claims, and Logan county 30. Other claims were La Moure county 16, Pierce 15, Burleigh 8, Divide 5, Dunn 6, Grant 5, Bottineau 6, Benson 6, Morton and Slope each 4, Mountrail, Ward, Ren- ville each 2, and Barnes, Dickey, Ed- dy, Foster, Hettinger, McIntosh, Mc- Kenzie, Richland, Sargent, and Stark each one. ‘The losses reported for the week were considerably smaller than that of the past several weeks. DAN McGUIGIN WEDS Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 13.— (#)—The marriage here Monday of Daniel McGuigin, Jr., football coach of Vanderbilt university, and Mrs. Eliza- beth Parker, Carmel, Cal., became known today. They were married in the office of a justice of the peace. | OUT OUR WAY . By Williams | GO AWEAD —1TS S/OURS. NWNORRY WART! “47S YOURS, BLT we're ~ GO AHEAD , TAKE INSURANCE HAWKS TRYING FOR + WEST-TO-EAST MARK Starts From California Today in Attempt to Better Time of Colonel Lindbergh Glendale, Calif. Aug. 13—(P)}— Frank Hawks, holder of the east-west transcontinental speed mark for air- planes, took off ffom Grand Central air terminal at 2:16:27 a. m. today in an effort to better the Pacific -to- Atlantic speed record held by Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. Hawks said he hoped to complete his flight in 12 hours, or two hours and 45 minutes quicker than the Lindberghs. Weather reports indicated good flying conditions. Last week Hawks made a five-stop flight from Curtiss Field, New York, to the Los Angeles Municipal airport in 14 hours 50 min- utes 43 seconds, setting a néW record under poor flying conditions. Harvest Worker Is Sent to an Asylum ‘Wahpeton, N. D, Aug. B—P)— Gunvold Nesheim, 37, Chicago laborer, brought to the county jail here Sun- Next comes 10.3 miles gravel and then west_on this road over 9 miles 18.6 miles earth to Buffalo (swat day after an unguccessful attempt to 'y ow he spsetee 13 sivas 87E), leaving 3.5 miles gravel, 86.4 take his nae at oe hows} at Lidger- Lote State Lic 'yoming-South | miles earth, and 7.8 miles gravel to wood, was ordered commifted to the ‘ota State Line. ii Worland, which ie the western Ata Hest Jose asylum at Jamestown The total distance SOUTH | inal of Usway 16, t ‘O- DAKOTA is 483 miles. MING of 298 miles. Fat Megane A ee at work in It is only in recent years that any| From this Tepe follow Usway 20 apparenuy. as "7 reault Be po tebe While in the hospital he obtained’a butcher knife and attempted to slash his throat, but was overpowered by @ janitor. o—______________» | AT THE MOVIES | 1 germ gore ta SRS SLL & | PARAMOUNT THEATRE Paul Whiteman, who is starred with his entire orchestra in Univer- sal's “King of Jazz,” which comes to the Paramount Theatre on Monday, Aug. 18th for a two day showing, was literally born with a violin in his hands. His father, Wiberforce J. White- man, was director of musical edu- cation at the Denver, Col., schools. for thirty years. His mother sang in oratorio and in the Denver choirs. And when Paul was three years of ra his father gave him his first vio- Paul was educated at the Denver city schools, and at seventeen was chief viola player in the Denver Symphony orchestra. Just then “ragtime” was beginning to become popular, and in 1915 Whiteman left his native Denver to go to San Fran- cisco and play in the World's Fair Orchestta and Minetti’s String Quar- tet. After the Exposition, Paul got a job at Tait’s then-famous restaurant as ‘| jazz musician, but he was actually fired because they’ didn’t consider him so “hot” those days. Nothing daunted, he recruited the nucleus of an orchestra of his own, and opened at Santa Barbara, California. For quite a while Whiteman and his boys led a minstrel life, getting work where they could. . Then, through an old friend who had heard his music, he got his first real chance at the Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles, then the favorite rendezvous of the movie stars. From that time forward’ White- man’s name became the synonym for the best in jazz music. He went to the Ambassador, Atlantic City, and signed a contract with the Victer Phonograph company to make’phon- }ograph records. Since that time he has made and sold vastly more rec- ords than any other recorder in the world. ‘Whiteman’s orchestra next was fea- tured in the Ziegfeld Follies, and then. the maestro of jazz made a triumphal European tour in-which he took American music into the strong- holds of classic music at Paris, Lon- don, Vienna, Rome. Returning to New York, he gave the- first jaz symphony at the Aeolian Hall, on February 12, 1924. It was another triumph both for Whiteman and for jazz. It definitely marked the popular supremacy of jazz music, and of Whiteman as its foremost exponent. Since that time the conceded “monarch of melody” has been play- ing stage, concert, and night club en- gagements in the leading cities of the world. He came direct from New York to make “King of Jazz.” CAPITOL THEATRE The brilliant young actress, Lois Moran, supported by an unusually strong cast, scored a distinct triumph in “Not Damaged,” Fox Movietone comedy romance with music which had its first showing at the Capitol Theatre this &fternoon. Others prominent in the cast in- clude Walter Byron, Robert Ames, Inez Courtney, George “Re” Cor- coran, Rhoda Cross and Ernest Wood,: all of whom contribute excellent pers formances. The story revolves about the an. more department store.in New York city. Miss Moran and Miss Courtney are sales girls, Ames is the store's ra- dio mechanic and Corcoran is the store detective. Byron is a wealthy young man who strays into the store and becomes enarmored of Miss Moran, who starts to use him as a foil for Ames’ jealousy and ends up by falling in “love with him. The song and dance number by Miss Courtney and Corcoran, en- titled “Nothing’s Gonna Hold Us Down,” is the comedy high spot of the picture and figuratively “brought down the house” at the opening per- formance. Mencken to Nathan, ‘Let Us Both Marry’ New York, Aug. 13—(P)—H. L. Mencken to George Jean Nathan via cable: “How about a double-header? My pastor offers inside summer rates.” But Nathan, returning from Europe, seemed unconvinced. A company has been formed in London to exploit pita fiber, obtained from a plant of the pineapple fsmily growing prolifically in Colombia from whlch twine, textiles and paper cen be made. Strike Earth in ‘August Shower’ BEGINS TO BURN HERE SIZE OF AVERAGE CONSUMING Ki PERSEIDS RAPIDLY ‘e BURNED To DUST HERE ~ How meteors turn to dust in rare atmosphere is shown by this sketch. By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE (Associated Press Science Editor) New York—(AP)—A_ hundred blazing meteors an hour are due to bombard the upper air the night of August 11—without the probability of one record hit on earth. They are the Perseids, the annual August shower of shooting stars that demonstrate the effective protection of the armor belt of atmosphere high above earth. Paradoxically, the ‘faster the meteors fly the less their chance-of penetrating the air. The Perseids come from the north- east any time between August 9 and 15, but are most likely to make their mass attack on the night of August 11, and to be seen best after mid- night. Some astronomers say the Per- seids ignite at probably about 70 miles ‘elevation, from friction, and that they burn up by the time they drop to about 55 miles. Thence they may descend as meteoric dust r-Fallowing Best Method Against Drouth . | Chances Small That Perseid Meteors Will | | 80 tent that it floats with air cur- rents. Their size appears to be an im- portant factor in lack of hits. While astronomical opinion differs, they are said to average not much bigger than ee of pins or perhaps peas. An iron pea dropping 70 miln« might do damage, but any pea-sized Perseid\ is traveling so fast—at speeds estimated from 25 to 35 fied air at 70 miles high it burns in @ flash. Unless its size is great—at least several pounds, say astronomers— the faster a meteor travels the less its chance of hitting, on account of increased friction. The chances equal the inverse square of the velocity. These speedy Perseids are esti- mated to burn at 7,000 degrees, an intensity which accounts for the grain-of-dust-sized flash being vis- ible for perhaps hundreds of miles. If a big meteor dropped in the front yard the finder might get enough iron to make anything from a skillet to a couple of autos. He also might find aluminum, oxy; nitrogen, carbon, nickel, phosphor- us and numerous other elements common to earth. The latest discovered is arsenic, found recently at Cornell university by Dr. Jacob Papish. But only the iron would have possible commercial value, because the other elements are present mostly in microscopical amounts, Perseids often have been countéd at the rate of several hundred an hour, and_100 is a common average, but seeing them requires an unusual- ly clear night far from any city. AIDS BOAT IN DISTRESS San Pedro, Cal., Aug. 13.—(#)—The coast guard cutter Algonquin went to the aid of the yawl “Contender” to- day after receiving a wireless message requesting immediate assistance and indicating she had been partly dis- masted 400 miles northwest of here. There were 25 persons aboard the yawl. Coast guardsmen said the con- tender requested fuel and provisions. THEY GAVE A © new Thrill LEFT HIM BROKE. JUSTA FEW YEARS LATER HE WAS A HIGH -SALARIED_ MOVIE STAR. GOT THERE == PAST SUCCESS STORY HO. 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