The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1937, Page 7

Dust Bowl’s Comeback Has Its After five lean years in the dust bowl, plentiful spring rains have at:-last produced the makings of a bumper wheat crop for 1937. Texas wheat raisers on the South Plains of the Panhandle stand joy- 2 fully almost shoulder-high in golden grain as the great combines reap anywhere from 25 to 50 bushels f 4 to the acre. But even amid this rejoicing, trouble and disaster are threatening in certain sections of “America’s bread basket.” In the extreme northwest, black rust is already cutting in on the bountiful yield, while in Colorado— Grasshoppers! A ia 4 a HE GOES GLIDING. Richard C. du Pont of Will n, Del., A is shown in his German-made glider as he started for the Elmira, i N. ¥., soaring meet in the tow of a plane. En route, he cut loose for & , i , Stop at Scranton, Pa., and made a hazardous landing. LIFE LINE GUARDS. : Spain, Gibraltar and its narrow strait important to British shipping to colonies, are among the great responsibilities of English policy- makers in dealing with Spain’s civil war. Heré are two of His Majesty’s ships on guard along the famed “life line.” * 4 BRANCO'S FRIENDS. : Italy and Germany, both withdrawing from the neutral patrol of Spanish waters, indicated 2 closer understanding with Insurgent General Francisco Franco. Here’s an Italiani gun crew at practice on the Mediterranean. Europe was getting another war scare. ERIC: MT ae Hitler announced he would “welcome” Franco's vic- help to supplying Germany with ore; the Italian dl “Franco Tout win iitier was visiting 11 Duce when this picture was made. They then were looking over Italy’s naval strength, ws 80 TRUE. Roberta Jonay dreamed of dancing in Black ribbon bows top this costume to form an Ree CAME Latin Di Boosevelt became interested in the fo summer sty. EP Ee ee eas white 21-year-old St. Petersburg, Fia., girl and—well, here they both are at Roberia’s professional debut at a Park’ Avenue hotel. straps THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JULY 2,1937. MS Mo! West Harvests Bumper Wheat Crop -- and Fights Bumper ‘Hoppers’ ‘Mixed Blessings’ Colorado. wheat farmers viewed with horror the swarming of hordes of the long-winged migratory grasshopper over an area already as big as Rhode Island and Delaware com- bined! In a desperate effort to head off the pests before they develop wings and spread still more widely, state and federal governments combine in a relentless campaign to stamp them out. Here is Dr. H, H. Bennett*of the Federal Soil Conservation Service in Washington, inspecting hoppers on the : ae But the Colorado farmers fight back! CCC boys and national! guardsmen. in trucks are distributing tons of poison. Because} grain is too dear, the usual method of poisoning grain as bait has been abandoned. in favor of a mixture of sawdust, blackstrap .mo- lasses, and poison. “The outfit shown here is a hastily-contrived mechanical spreader which broadcasts the poisoned sawdust.- side of a house in Hugo, Colo. - Her two-week stay at the Jones (it’s Jonay on theater bi s ters. While Mrs. Roosevelt's guest, the White House car-took her to work daily at the Washington hote] where she was dancing, and the White House staff looked after her every want. It appears above that she is having em ais for herself during a visit to lew Yor! ite House ended, dancer Roberta lings), returns to more prosaic quar= Making one of her rare appearances in photographic limelight, Mrs. Neville Chamberlin strolls beside her Busband fh St. James? Park, London, as Britain’s new prime minister takes his morning con- stitutional on his first day in office, So successfully does his wife keep in the background that millions throughout the world are unaware Chamberlin is married. William Fischman, life guard in the Long Island Rockaways, tries out a new device intended to protect the swimmer's nose, ) sinus passages, and ear air * é 5 spaces, which physicians say Youngest person ever tried in are endangered by too much Pennsylvania on a first degree bathing. A small, rubberized, murder charge, Anthony Naples, U-shaped clip, attached to a 11, above, of New Castle, awaits narrow elastic band which loops transfer to an industrial home, behind the ears, clamps the nos- © where he must serve a term of trils shut, closing off the infow from six to 12 years. He was - "of water. convicted’ of deliberately shoote ing a playmate to death. et as Smoking out the enemy used to mean forcing them into the open, the body of a slain picket was carried away, these angry steel As H ood the pavement but with the use of smoke screens behind which troops and planes strikers at prayer eg ips a re ee Cotes Mike, may maneuver undetected the phrase takes on a ern meaning. on this sign and held it up srift fired a gas gun into 8 Zooming toward the clouds, five planes of the Royal Air Force was injured fatally when a deputy sheri went off secidentally. show how they will lay a protective smoke screen in battle during crowd at close range. The deputy said the gun w’ ‘@ demonstration at Duxford, England. ae % P