The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 15, 1937, Page 8

g Se EIGHT INDICTED IN “N.Y. INVESTIGATION Dewey Aims Death Blow at Gi- gantic $100,000,000 a Year Policy Racket “ New York, July 15—(7)\—Eight men, Indicted leaders of a $100,000,000-a- year policy racket were sought Thur: day as Special Prosecutor Thomas E. ‘Dewey aimed a death blow at what he * termed organized crime’s largest ‘source of slush fund moneys. . The eight fugitives and four others were indicted by an extraordinary grand jury Wednesday as inheritors of the policy racket of the late Arthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer, slain “in a Newark, N. J., tavern in October, One of those indicted was J. Rich- | ard (Dixie) Davis, attorney for Schultz and other gangsters. The indictments charged Davis was one of three who directed Schultz’ policy Yacket after his death, — Schultz organized the policy, or numbers, racket in 1930. Bettors, re- cruited from all walks of life, gamble from a few cents to dollars, selecting ny number of three figures. Win- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1987 How New Devi ners are paid at the ratio of 500 to 1, the winning number generally be- ing based on the parimutuel figures of a certain number of horse races at a given track. Davis himself, testifying two years ago before Commissioner of Ac-| counts Paul Blanshard, estimated the annual “take” of the policy racket at $500,000,000 a year. Its headquarters | then were in Harlem, where much of the betting was done. Grain Yields in S. D. Only Fair, Is Report Hurson, 8. D., July 15—()—Har- vesting operations, B. R. Laskowski, federal meteorologist said in his weekly crop summary, show small grain yields and quality varying from Poor to good but mostly fair. High temperatures which prevailed for the second successive week hur- Tied maturity of fall and spring sown small grains too rapidly and did not allow the heads to fill properly, the federal meteorologist said. Small grain harvesting was about half completed in the southeast quarter of the state. “Cutting the grain for forage is Qute general in northeast and west sections,” the summary said. “Corn continued its good growth.” tation and Dust its baby brother, the from which much is expected. The bottom of Lake Superior, which is 1180 feet below the surface in.some Places, is 578 feet below sea level. —_—_—_—_EEeEe — — ————— DR. R. S. ENGE Chiropractor Drugless Physician Lucas Blk., Bismarck, N. D. Telephone No. 260 probably “know more about basin lister than the “their baby.” better interest themselves in Announcing FIRST ANNUAL “DAKOTA MAID LOYALTY WEEK” “JULY 17 to 24 (Inclusive) During this week, all North Dakota Retail Merchants handling State Mill and Elevator products will of- fer special merchandise values for the thrifty housewife—a money- saving event you, Madam, cannot afford to miss! SEE YOUR GROCER FOR STATE MILL AND ELEVATOR A State-owned Business Institution Worthy of Your Support GRAND FORKS, N. D. Don’t miss “Dakota Maid” Programs (with “Speed” Wallace) at 5 p.m. (CST) each Tuesday and Thursday from your loe: radio station — Thursdays only, over WDAY* Ht Wy, WHA WHEN YOU BUY THE seacdeconsne © Why risk discomfort and faulty shaves? Probak Js.—product of the world’s largest Bade maker positively guarantees comfort and economy —sells at 4 for 10¢! This double- edge blade is automatically ground, boned and stropped by special process. It is made ‘to whisk through dense stubble without pull = irritation. Enjoy rea) shaving comfort at low price. Buy » package of Probak Jr. from vous dealer. today. PROBAK ~ JUNIOR BLADES ~ fi PRQDUGS O0.2N8 WORLD'S LAROEST OLA0L MAKERS New Far Aids Erosion War m Implement Creates Reservoirs in Fields to Catch Precipi- Maybe it is just another campaign to sell something to the farmer but government experts say that, isn't so. They are speaking about the lister, farming device recently given new prominence in the plains country, and basin lister, In fact the government agronomists | the; people who make it. It was they who saw the need for it and it was they who de- vised ways of using it. In short it isilapsed. The jungle hemmed it in. It all goes back to about 1925 when federal farm experts decided they had the Problem of erosion in the plains re-|ing that he is the best citizen .who gion. That was long before anyone| keeps rains from washing his soil in North Dakota had begun to talk! away. about erosion in this area. Our turn ee * * Device was coming but few in this region | prophesied the fact. Compared to China | Erosion was not and is not a new thing. It is the process which took the soil off the bare rocks which now sppear in large parts of China, piled it many feet deep in other parts of that ancient land. That was wind erosion—the same kind that we know. It was erosion by both wind and j water which contributed to the down- fall of ancient Asiatic empires. Wa- ter erosion alone is held responsible for the decline of the Aztec civili- zation in Mexico. Water channels filled with silt, making communica- tion and transportation by boat dif- ficult and the jungles thwarted over- land commerce. What had been & great and united civilization broke up into small groups and eventually col- Only ruins remain. Thoughtful men noted the effects of erosion before the Revolutionary war. Thus we find Patrick Henry say- That remark is just as applicable today as his more famous declaration | of “Give me Liberty or give me death. First Noted In Kansas Thus it was that an ancient evil came to America’s Great plains. It was noted first in Kansas, longer un- der civilization than other parts of the Great Plains area, and it was there that the government began its experiments. While North Dakota farmers were being advised to pulverize their soil to make a good seed bed, parts of Kansas were beginning to blow away. The problem was to keep the land in place. The binding humus had gone from the soil there just as its ab- pence was later to become so apparent ere. It was only common sense for the experts to reach the conclusion that a grain of soil blows more readily than a chunk and so they began to experiment with “rough tillage.” So they abandoned the old moldboard plow and used a lister t6 tear up the soil. Makes Surface Ditch The lister is really a two-sided shovel, dragged through the earth. It doesn’t cut, it tears, making a ditch in the surface of the land and throw- up clods on either side. Farmers in this area long have “listed” corn and have used the ma- chine for other purposes, But the people of Kansas are na- tural-born experimenters. In the western part of that state they have Practiced irrigation for years, de- spite the fact that it is in the 24-inch rainfall belt. Most of the water which falls in Western Kansas and the states beyond eventually gets used. Millions of acres, however, are not subject to irrigation and must de. pend on natural rainfall to grow crops. It wasn’t genius on the part of the federal experts which noted that from many acres a substantial part of the rainfall ran away into the streams. Geographically Kansas isa level plains country, just as is North Da- kota, but it isn’t level in the sense that it doesn’t have si sufficient for the water to run off. Devise Plowing System The next step, then, was to devise & system of contour now slowly coming into use here and else- where. This is done by keeping the plow at the same level when plowing & hillside or slope. It results in a curving furrow but it is the only straight furrow possible when con- sidered from the standpoint of the Plane of the land. When water falls into one of those furrows it stays there because there is no foree. of Bravity to move it. It doesn’t run down, hill because there is no slope if the Job is done right. absolutely level who has ever done: a scrub! knows that nearly every floor has one or more low spots. .Man and-his works iba) pero eae water is inf 5 er fai run to the low Thus observers sometimes found water running out the ei lster furrows after hea' That fact started churning until they fi }with the basin or damming . fe the old-fashioned: lister with important new wrinkle. This is pro- vided by an eccentric attachment which lifts the shovels at stated inter- vals as they pulled through the ground. The shovel is lifted only momentarily, then dropped into the Sround again, but during that short cae benefit to farmers in ‘| for registration, C. J. Meyers, assist- re Pictured above is a field, cultivated by a basin lister. Beneath it is shown the strange new device which is expected to be of material the plains country. time ‘the implement travels forward a few inches. The result is to make @ little, elongated basin with a dam at each end. When water falls on the land. ae runs ine me. ae basins it s e until it seeps the soil or ae . Usually Done in Fall This usually is done in the fall or | iate summer after the crop is off the | field and the rough ridges and: the basins are used to hold the snow in place during the winter. | In the-spring the farmer goes over | the field with what is known as a “lister buster” smoothing it out 80 | crops may be planted. | So far as is known only one field | in Burleigh county has been tilled in | that manner. That is on the Carl | Schultz farm, north of Bismarck, | where the soil conservation service | prepared a field for demonstration | Purposes. It was sown this spring and the yleld obtained will be compared carefully with that from other. fields nearby. This and other tests are ex- pected to prove what value, if any, | the machine will be in this area from the standpoint of crop production. With regard to holding the land in place ‘there is no question about it. The lister is effective for that pur- pose. In many cases the ditches made by the lister have ‘been partially filled up with silt, some of it blown from | the rougk clods at the top of the lister-rows but most of it from neigh- boring fields. 2 The average life of the president's of the United States has been 69.9 years . 7100 APPLY FOR | ~— STATE INSURANCE Late Applications for Protection Against Hail Must Be in Mail Tonight Approximately 7,100 applications for hail insurance protection had been filed with the state insurance department Thursday, the final day ant manager of the hail insurance division, said. Any applications written by assess- ors before 5 p. m., Thursday end reaching the Bismarck office by Mon- day will be acceptable, however, under the law which provides a three-day period for bringing them in, Meyers explained. About 6,000 of the applications have been approved. The other 1,100 re- quests were rejected because hail had) struck the crops before application was made and many had delinquent hail taxes for 1933 and prior years. There have been 300 hail losses this year, according to Meyers, who said he expected a lower rate than in 1936 when 250 claims were paid on only 1,842 policies. Scottsboro Case Up Before Court Again Decatur, Ala., July 15.—(?)—For the ninth time in six years a jury Thurs- day weighed the fate of a “Scotts- boro case” defendant, accused with the rape of two white women by nine Negroes. The jury, taking the case of Clar- ence Norris, had before it a demand from the state that the death pen- elty be exacted. 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D., July 15—()—Nearly Veteran Chief —{|LABOR ATTORNEYS CHARGE PARTIALITY Investigation of Chicago Me- morial Day Killings Turns Into Wrangling Chicago, July 15—(#}—The coron. er’s inquest into ten deaths in Memorial day steel strike rioting was turned into a wrangle Thursday with CIO attorneys accusing the state's attorney's office of pursuing an anti- union policy. The four union lawyers jumped to their feet and shouted the charge after Assistant State’s Attorney Mal Coghlan explained during question- ing of a witness that his office in in- vestigating the rioting was not con- cerned with the positions of strikers or employers in the case but merely was performing its official duties, “It’s apparent the state’s attorney's office is against trade unions and the CIO,” the union counsel cried. The dispute began during interro- gation of Louis F. Selinek, a member of the union strike strategy commit- tee at the Republic Steel corporation plant in South Chicago. fire depart- last 38 years and fire men’s association. RAIN DELUGES WEBSTER inches of rain fell here and in putter Day county in the 24 hours ending at noon Wednesday, the heav- jest single fall in years. Base- ments weré flooded in many parts of Selinek declared that when Assist- ant State’s Attorney Alexander Na- poli questioned him June 1 at the South Chicago police station he was forced to answer the way Napoli the city. wanted him to. 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