Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 2

2 ¥ DENIES LEFT TURNS LIKE CLEVELAND'S Visitor From Ohio City Finds Traffic Conditions Here Confusing. The alleged similarity between the left | turn rules of Cleveland, Ohio and Wash- | ington is disputed by a motorist of the | former city who recently visited Wash- ington and made a careful study of con- ditions here. According to him lack of | uniformity is the outstanding difference | in driving conditions in this Capital. | “People who are merely visitors in | both Cleveland and Washington make | a serious error when they attempt to | compare left turn rules in the two cities, | 2sid R. G. Morrison of Cleveland, ‘be: cause their unfamiliarity with condi-' tions causes them to overlook the basic | difference between the two cities. In Cleveland the same rule for left turn- | ing applies at all intersections at all| times, while I find here you have two ' methods, which 1 have found very con- | fusing. I had heard your rule was the | same as ours, and therefore anticipated ! no trouble here. However, the last few | days experience has proven. to me at least. that I had less difficulty in cities | whose rule was entirely different from | -the Cleveland turn but who stuck to| that one method without compromising. “Of course, I got around here and I found your policeman very courteous and forebearing to those who evinced a lack of familiarity with your local rules. It would seem they have a wrii- ten or unwritten rule to deal kindly with drivers of foreign tagged cars, for I know I contributed my share to sev- eral trafic snarls—all because I in- stinetively obeyed some one of our traffic rules which vou did not happen to have in your code. Favors Uniform Rule. “Clearly. if all cities had substantially the same rules, much confusion woud be avoided and it would make for fewer accidents, because lack of certainty to just what to do under v: g traffic conditions makes travel dangerous. I must confess that personally I cannot see why it is impracticable to have essentially the same rules throughout the country. “Other visitors here, on finding we were from Cleveland, have said that we. at least, ought to be able to get around here, since our rules are the same, but actually your two methods of left turn- ing have made things difficult. Seem- ingly, I'm not alone in that respect either. because I've notice many cars with Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia tags making the Clevel turn when, as I understood it, your rules do not require it because the in- tersection was not a controlled one or at least was not controlled at the time. “Personally 1 prefer our method of left turning—possibly because we have used it for many years, but it seems to me you would do better to adopt one method or the other so as to have it the same all over town. True we sometimes don't swing way over to the right when turning left—many times | in order to expedite things, our traffic | officers motion us to make the left| turn from the center of the street and | again we sometimes do it ourselves without signals at uncontrolled cross- ings to save time. Come to think of it, that would seem to indicate that the wide swinging rotary turn retards traffic if we ignore it to speed up traffic. but. any way, that's the way it works out.| “In any event we have a uniform rule, which is something. It's hard enough for a visitor to drive here with this| street all torn up and that one half blocked without having to stage a guessing contest at every intersection to find out what left turning rule is in effect at the particular time you are approaching it. Finds Trouble Parking. “And your parking! We wanted to go to the Pan-American Building. but | we couldn't take our car in there with us and wherever we drove we were con- fronted with solid curb lines of parked | cars but no place for visiting cars.| Then we tried to go to the White House, and before we could find a rest- | ing piace for the car we drove block ! and block—likewise we finally walked | THE EVEN l ALL ESCAPE WHEN CAR ROLLS OVER TWICE When this party was return turtle, but none of the occupants was in, damaged. Frank Newman, sr.; man with “Snowball’ others. Mrs. Newman wa: \EARNG RECRD Plane, Past 200-Hour Mark,§ Must Stay Aloft Another Day to Reach Goal. ! By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, July 22.—Néeding to stay aloft until 3:01 p.m. (central standard time) tomorrow to set & new record for refueling endurance flights, Dale “Red” Jackson and Forest O'Brine in their St. Louis Robin, slowly were circling | over a St. Louis airport today, passing their 218th hour at 9:17 a.m., central standard_time. The Missouri Robin, second of two | sister endurance planes to go aloft at | Lambert-St. Louis Field in an attempt | to set a new record for sustained flight, ING _STAR., WASHINGT CALLES, N TEXAS 5 GVEN SALUTE Boards Train for New York After Inspecting Company of Soldiers. By the Associated Press. LAREDO,, Tex, July 22—Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, former President’ 'Df Mexico, crossed into the United States here at 9 o'clock this morning. and after inspecting & company of soldiers from Fort McIntosh and re- ceiving & salute of 21 guns, boarded a | train for New York. The general's route will be by way of 8t. Louts. An orderly crowd greeted Gen. Calles, who was accompanied by a number of friends, including Dr. Raseca Madero, his physician. His party was met at the Interna- tional Bridge by a delegation from the Laredo Chamber of Commerce, which extended to the general an invitation to have breakfast at Fort McIntosh. £ 10 Washungion eany today thew In the group are Frank Newman, Ji Betsy Elizabeth Newman with “Sc ST LOUS FLYERS | jured and the machine was only slightly | and Eddie Fink with “Rex,” atchy” and Helen New- s also in the wreck but escaped with the Yard of Cloth, Pin, Taken From Throat Of Missouri Woman By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 22— An open safety pin and & piece of pongee cloth, 8 inches wide and & yard long, was removed from the esophagiis of Mrs. Mary Blaish, 30, of Springfield, by Drs. W. C. Cheek and Jay Silsby here yesterday. Relatives of the wom- an were unable to explain how Mrs. Blaish happened to swallow the pin and cloth Saturday night. ‘The pin's point was lodged in the wall of the tube, with the cloth wadded down on top of it. \DR. A.E. J. LISTOE, 35, | DIES IN COLORADO| Funeral Services for Former Wash- | ington Physician to Be Held Here. Janded at 7:51 am. today. after hay- | ing been in the air 117 hours ZO‘ minutes. | A leaky oil line which they were unable to repair forced the fiyers, Joe Hammer and W. Gentry Shelton, to bring the plane to earth. The ten days in the air found Jack- son and O'Brine optimistic in their | Rotes, "Red” being given Sunday off by his partner, as the latter caught six | hours’ sleep in one stretch. Refueling | contacts were being made with regu- Jarity and good flying weather held | throughout the time in the air. l Jackson and O'Brine took off from | Lambert-St. Louis Field at 7:17 a.m. on | Saturday, July 13, and it wasn't until | they had been in_the air more than | 100 hours they announced their try for | the record—to stay aloft while englne, | plane and pilots held out. | Hammer, air mail pilot, and Shelton, | St. Louis flying enthusiast, expressed Keen disappointament when they land- | ed at Lambert-St. Louis Field. They | 2aid the leak in the ol line, which, de- | Veloped this morning, threw oil over | the windows of the cabin, making it | impossible for them to see. 'They land- | ed safely under extreme difficulty. Hammer and Shelton left at 10:33| blocks from where we did park. “Now in Cleveland there are numer- ous parking places off the streets where all-day parkers can leave their cars. The result is that those who wish to leave their cars for a short time have a reasonable chance to find space. Why | don’t you at least give your visitors an | even break with your business and Gov- | ernment people, who. seemingly, take up most of the space with all-day park- ing?> You reserve space for taxis—why not around the principal points of in- terest reserve space for cars with for- eign tags? Whoever does that will find the tourists blessing him. “Aside from that, however, if you folks in Washington are going to use the Cleveland turn, why don't you fol- low the rest of our example and make it vour method at sll intersections? As it is, when I have approached an intersection in Washington where I wanted to turn left I've besn carried back to the childhood games of ‘enny- meeny-minny-mo.’ and ‘what hand do you choose”” And ‘blindman’s buff’ and the picture is complete.” ———————- BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band at the Marine Barracks tonight, 8 o'elock. March, “Garry Owen" ..Nord | (Regimental march 7th United States Cavalry.) 'he Merry Wives of . Nieolal i . Moszkowskl Listen to My Tale of Humoresque, . . Sousa | Woe” .. Bole for saxophone .Mayeur Grand scenes from “Lakme”...Delibes Chanson Negre, ‘Le Bananier,” Gottschalk Reverie, “La Voix des Cloches.” Luigini “Neapolitan Scenes”..........Massenet The Dance (allegro molto). | The Fete (allegro). i The Marines' hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” l By _the United States Navy Band at the Capitol. 7:30 o'clock. Beethoven March, Overture, “The Cricket on the Hearth” ...... ......Mackende Bolo for cornet, “Southern Crose,” Clarke (Musician Ralph Ostrom.) Polonaise from ‘“The Third Suite” ‘Tschaikowsky March, “De Nuit Gottschalk Clmo Espanol, 3 " Espinosa Bul “Colonial Song”............Grainger “Mooly on the Shore” (Irish reel) . e % Grainger cerpts from e New Moon,” !x 3 Rom| ber Valse, “The Beautiful Blue Danube,” ¥ Strau \ “Neapolitan Led and Fisher Maid” from “The Mask Ball”....Rubinstein “‘Anchors Aweigh.” “The Star Spangled By the United States Army Band, | Capt. Curtis D. Alway, Infantry, com- manding; Willlam J. Stannard, leader; Thomas F. Darcy, second leader, con- ducting: at Reservation 400, Sherier place and Macomb street, at 7:30 o'clock. #dsreh, “The Dokey,” Green and Hummel “Hungarian Fantasia” . Erkel anner.” am. on Wednesday, July 17, and Shel- ton experienced a slight attack of “air | sickness” on the second day. The pro- peller of their plane severed the re fueling hose on one of the early con: tacts, otherwise the dual record at- tempts have been unevem(u!. 1 A crowd estimated by officials at 50.- 000, larger than the one which greeted | Lindbergh on_ his return. from Paris, | watched the planes soar yesterday. With a new record, the flyers are as- sured of getting at least $1 an hour for their time in the air. Former Mayor Henry W. Kiel, president of the Mu- nicipal Opera, made the promises. TEXANS NEAR HALF-WAY MARK. Houston Flyers Up 109 Hours in Attempt | To Set Record. HOUSTON, Tex., July 22 (#)—The monoplane Billion Dollar City, piloted by Glenn L. Loomis and Joe Glass, neared the half-way mark today in an attempt to break the refueling endur- ance record of 246 hours 43 minutes and 36 seconds. At 1:49:54 am. the ship had been aloft 109 hours. LOUISIANIANS UP 113 HOURS. Shreveport Pilots Report “Everything Is 0. K.” in Endurance Quest. SHREVEPORT, La., July 22 (@ — ‘The plane KWKH at 4 am. Central time today had been in the air 113'2 hours. “Everything is O. K.,” Van Lear Leary and Willlam Currey Sanders, pllots, reported. S CRAND_ALL TO CLOS! BUSINESS CAREER; RETIRES AUGUST 1| ___ (Continued From First Page) | town theaters are the Apollg, Central and Strand in Martinsburg, %he ‘Tivoli and Opera House in Frederick, the Co- lonial and Maryland in Hagersiown, the Arcade and Strand in Waynesboro and the Stanley Theater in Baltimore. Began 21 Years Ago. Mr. Crandall began a notable career in the motion picture industry when he opened the first of a steadily growing chain of theaters 21 years ago. It was a little house with 80 seats, bearing the name of the Casino, and located at Fourth and East Capitol street® Today | the chain of theaters are capable of ac- commodating an aggregate patronage of approximately 45,000 to 50,000 people at a single performance. ‘With the announcement of Crandall's| retirement came also today the news| of the promotion to the general man- agership of the Washington and sur- rounding territory for the Warner Bros. theaters of John J. Payette, who has been identified since 1919 with Mr. Crandall in the growth of the circuit. Until the present time Mr. Payetle, who is Mr. Crandall's son-in-law, has been supervisor of theaters. and, begin ning August 1, takes over the dultles re. linquished by Mr. Crandall in addition ' to_those he now holds. Besides being one ‘of the pioneer ex- hibitors, Mr. Crandall is also a veteran in the establishment of public service and educational work between the thea- | Fox trot, “Wedding of the Painted B':l'ecg:z ‘Building a Nest for Mary. Rose and Greer March, “The Toymaker’ el Golden Overture, “Sicilian Vespers”......Verd “The Bter Srevclaq Bapmer - ter and the public. Swims Around Manhattan. NEW YORK. July 22 (®.—Lillian G->rick, 17, has swum around Man- aattan in 11 hours 26 minutes, 24r -ewrs fester than soy other of her w; Dr. Alexander E. J. Listoe, a major in the United States Army during the World War and at one time a practic- ing physician of this city, died at Colo- radowSprings, Colo.. yesterday, accord- ing to word received here. He was 35 years old. Dr. Listoe had recently resided in Bedford, Va., moving to_Colorado for his health. His wife, Mrs. Blanche | Listoe, was with him when he died. Dr. Listoe was a graduate of George- | town University, and practiced medicine | here for about a year prior to entering | the service. He served with the grade | of major in ‘the 354th Infantry, 39th Division during the world conflict. He | was the son of the late Soren Listoe, who was consul general at Rotterdam, The Netherlands. for 25 years. Besides his wife, Dr.’ Listoe leaves three children. Betty, 11 years old; | Alexander, 9. and Hanna Frances, 3 two sisters, Miss Grace Listoe of this| city, and Mrs. C. C. Pinckney of New | Rochelle, N. Y., and a brother, Albert | Listoe of Oregon. Funeral services will be conducted in St. Thomas' Episcopal Church here Fri- | day morning at 9 o'clock. Rev. | rest did not state the charge. He refused, saying his health would not permit acceptaics, but that he would visit the fort on his return, Gen. Calles sald he would go to France from New York in an effort to regain his health, He added that his sojourn in that country would be governed by the rapidity of his recovery. He refused to discuss internal affairs of his country. FOUR ARE ARRESTED IN $42,000 ROBBERY Machine Gun, With 26 Notches in Stock, Is Found Under Pillow of One Suspect. | By the Associated Pres: BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 22—Two men and two women were arrested in| a hotel here today in connection with the $42,000 bank hold-up in New Or- leans last week. The four identified themselves as Raymond Robertson and his wife of Cornersviile, Mo., and Joe Cascio and his wife, Ruby, of Shreveport, La. They | were arrested by M. E. McDuff of the Police Identification Bureau on request| of New Orleans police. | Casclo was asleep with a German- made machine gun under his pillow when McDuff and two detectives enter- ed the room, Robertson was armed with a revolver, 'The machine gun had 26 notches in its stock. the significance of which Cascio did not explain, The prisoners were photographed and fingerprinted. Casclo was sald by Mc- Duff to be wanted in Monroe, La., a though the telegram requesting his ar- i | ‘The identification records have been mailed to New Orleans. { STATEMENT ON ARMS IS DUE WEDNESDAY Expression From Premier MacDon- ald on Navy Reduction Expected in Commons. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 22.—Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald is expected to! make a statement on naval disarma- | ment in the House of Commons on Wednesday. i Lieut. Comdr. J. M. Kenworthy planned to ask today whether the| prime minister was ready to make a ON, D, C | BRITAIN FORMALLY JOINS PEACE MOVE Happy to Help U. S. Seek to Avert War in Far East, Government Says. By the Associated Press. Great Britain now stands formally ranged alongside the United States in the effort to prevent war in the con- troversy between China and Russia. Sir Esme Howard, the British Am- bassador, has placed before Secretary Stimson 'a note from his government saying 1t is “happy to associate itself” with the American action calling at- tention of the Chinese and Russian governments to their obligations under the Kellogg anti-war treaty. The note is in response to the Sec- retary’s communication on the subject last week with the British, French and Japanese Ambassadors, whose govern- ments are bound under the four-power pan-Pacific treaty of 1921 Operative Wednesday. While the Kellogg treaty will not be- come formally operative until the Jap- | anese ratification is deposited here Wednesday, the United States has taken the position that both Russia and China, having adhered to the pact and renounced war as a national policy, are morally obligated to avoid war in the Manchurian controversy. That view is shared by Frank B. | Kellogg, former Secretary of State. who had a large part in the world-wide ne- gotlation of the treaty and who yester- day came back to Washington to take | part in the ceremony which will attend | ratification. | the deposit of Japan's Holding that Secretary Stimson’s re- minder of the treaty's obligations to Russia and China was “entirely proper,” he sald: “I don't think there will be any war.” The dispute over China's seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway, being of an economic nature, s “very susceptible to pacific settlement” inthe former Secretary’s opinion, through either di- rect diplomatic negotiation or arbitra- Considerable Speculation. Dispatches from Peiping quoting & to confer ‘wh!n peace is threatened in the East. C. Ernest Smith will officiate. ment will be in Arlington Cemetery. Inter- statement regarding naval ship build- ing, but when the question was reached it was announced that it had been postponed by request until Wed- nesday. BEER CACHE DISCOVERED.! LONDON, Ontario, July 22 (#).—The | blockade on the Great Lakes by United | States officers is believed to have been responsible for a cache of $7.000 worth of beer, discovered by police a short distance east of St. Thomas in an old barn. The consignment consisted of 8,000 dozen pints. It had been manufactured in Waterloo, but police believe that it came back to St. Thomas when diffi- ___ (Continued From First Page. This was taken to mean that the prime minister's promised statement will be made on that day. ————— e HOOVER COMPLETES HIS PACT ADDRESS; COOLIDGE TO COME | manifesto calling upon | armies to rise against “Red imperial- {ism.” credited to Gen. Chiang Kal- Shek, the Nationalist President of China, have aroused considerable spec- ulation in Washington, especially in view of their falure to include the con- cillatory phrases which appeared in Gen. Chian’s pronouncement from Nan- king. ¥ |FIFTEEN FAMILIES ARE ROUTED BY FIRE the Chinese | culty was encountered in attempts to | run it across the lake. Retiring Upper: HARRY M. CRANDALL. Lower-JOHN J. PAYETTE. Mr. Crandall, long identified mobion pletnre’ i ing_his business and Mr. Payeite is to beco with tl industry here, is sever- connections August 1|1t is believed that girl emigran me general! were promised crisis between China and Russia. President has takeh a keen lnteru;n;r.\ recent developments in the Far East. He has been advised of the situation there through the State Department even while on his outing in Virginia. Upon Mr. Hoover's return today he was soon in communication with Sec- retary of State Stimson. What the Iatter had to report was not divulged. It is understood Mr. Hoover conferred also with Stimson regarding details of the Kellogg treaty proclamation Wed- nesday., Enjoyed Rest. The week-end vacation apparently agreed with the President. He was looking especially well and happy when he returned to his desk tod: There were no religious services on the schedule yesterday. The President devoted his time mostly to walking 2bout the woods and over the trails. He sat also in the shade chatting with friends. ' Mrs. Hoover and their sons, | Herbert, jr, and Allan, with other members of the party, indulged in a ' two-hour horseback ride, which car- ried them to the crest of the tallest mountain to the south of the camp. Robert Cotton, Undersecretary of State, left the camp for Washinglon yester- day morning, and Herbert Hoover, jr., who had business in New York today, left during the late afternoon, Former QGov. Spaulding and Mrs. Spaulding of New Hampshire, lefo the camp- Salurday afternoon. Others in the party who returned with the Presi- dent and Mrs, Hoover today were Secre- tary of Interior Wilbur, Mark Sullivan, newspaper magazine writer; Lawrence Richey, one of the President’s secre- taries; Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Ricard of New ' York, and their daughter, and Lieut. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, White House physician, IMMIGRANT SMUGGLING - UNCOVERED IN EUROPE Plot to Bring Poles and thhu’:n- jans to U. 8. Nipped by Arrests. By the Associated Press. E BERLIN, July 22—Alleged wholesale | smuggling of men and women from | Poland and Lithuania through Ger- | many to the United States and Brazil has been discovered. Joint action of the German and Polish police has re- sulted in 32 arrests of persons from the towns of Sosnowitz, Bendzin and Beauthen, It is alleged that American steam- he | ships have been used in assisting young Poles to evade military lsfvlu.u whn; wl employment in North obtained for manager for the Warner Bros., operat- and South America were for the Crandall chain of theaters. -the white slave traffie. Caused by Blaze at Drury Apartments. Fire attributed to faulty electric wiring routed scme 15 families from the Drury Apartments, 3121 Mount Pleas- ant street, shortly after noon today and caused several thousand dollars damage before it ct b2 brought under con- trol, although fireproof walls and prompt response on the part of firemen resulted in the flames being confined to a fourth floor apartment and adja- cent hallway. The blaze originated in the apart- ment of Mrs, Myrtle Clayton and vir- tually demolished the furnishis ‘while the family was away. Mi becea Allen, living next door, discovered the smoke and telephoned headquarters. Engine Companies Nos. 11 and 6 re- sponded to the alarm. Most of the damage. which has not been definitely determined as yet, was attributed to smoke and water. STORMS VISIT ENGLAND. LONDON, July 22 (#).—A series of thunderstorms which struck varicus parls of England during the -past 48 hours seemed today to have done very litle toward alleviating the water shortage, which is still causing much anxlety to municipalities and farmers in most parts of the country. In isolated districts gardens and flelds { received a thorough wetting, but the thirsty soil rapidly absorbed even the rail fall and there was no general rise in streams or in the water levels of de- pleted reservoirs. 1,000 Perish in Path Of Landslides and Quakes in Anatolia By the Ascoclated Pres: CONSTANTINOPLE, July 22.— Latest reports from Northern Anatolia siate that recent earth- quakes and landslides have caused the deaths of one 1,000 persons. ‘Ten thousand are homeless and without food. As reports of the disaster gon- tinued, the Turkish Red Crescent Soclety began rushing ald to the assistance of the victims, while the Constantinople press fis a) pealing for the help of the Inter- national Red Cross. Shocks and l.lnd.llldc:,,. Ifiu lat- Several Thousand Dollars’ Damage | The North German Lloyd Line's new Capt. Zlegenbel hip, Bremen, and her commander, 1 CHINA EXPECTS 1. S. TOFORM NEDATON ‘Border Attack on Chinese and Firing on Russian Air- planes Reported. | (Continued From First Page) | connection with the Chinese Esstern Reilway,” the dispatch said, It was stated also the ministry of 'GOLDEN HARVEST MARKS EPOCH IN KANSAS AS WHEAT TOPS $1 138.000.000-Bushel Bumper Crop, at First Doomed to Low Value. Skyrockets as Canada and Northwest Suffer. Special Dispatch to The Star. KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 22 | (N.AIN.A.) —The people of the prairies | of Kansas are marking an epoch in the State’s history of wheat. | There are dramas in the making of this epoch. There is a well distributed | bumper crop, eslimated at 138,000.000 bushels, which six weeks ago promised to sell well below the dollar mark. Canada and the Northwest. The price | jumped as it had not jumped since war | days—40 cents in six weeks, 15 cents |in two days. Wheat has sold in this city recently for as high as $1.67. A stored surplus from the old crop of between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 bushels, which promised to drug the ixx‘nrket earlier, has proved a benefac- | tion. There is a drama in the mechanics {of the harvest—a drama of combines replacing thousands of men. There is a drama for the farmer's wife freed by the combines of the necessity of pre- paring meals for dozens or scores of harvest hands. | There is a drama of more scientific agriculture, which means yields. One can find the wheat tempo around Ulysses, the county seat of Grant County. Stores, garages, machine shops and cafes open al 5 o'clock in the mornirg: the noisy exhaust of wheat trucks (very few horses now) from 4 o'clock in the morning until night, implement dealers running shop night and day, ice cream being hauled to combine crews at noon, stores open until mid- ngiht, the screech of the sickle bar sharpener until 2 o'clock in the morn- ing. Anything to do with the harvest comes first. s If you are a truck driver, you get the quickest service at the restaurant countsr. If you tell a merchant you are anxious to get back to the fleld, the clerks run to wait on you. That there is a harvest complex, it is easy | to understand. The cash crop is sav- ing things—it's farm relief. Kansas is making the most—both. in joy and money—out of the fortunate turn in her wheat situation. Dollar wheat w a magic on the prairie, And virt the eleven and a half million acres sown to wheat is producing a crop varying from 6 to 45 bushels an acre, an average of about 15. Two months ago close students of wheat would start as low as 65 cents & bushel. The more optimistic placed the probable price at about 75 cents. It appeared there would be a glut of wh The wheat fields, the world appeared to be prospering. But Canada and the American Northwest didn't get rain, So everything has combined to bull the market for the Kansas crop. Low tests in localities where crops failed caused millers to buy large quantities wheat average for milling purposes. Exporters began to purchase for the same reason, and also because of the shortage. Before the better fortune smiled, | bankers, farmers and grain men had a sort of gentleman's agreement that they would talk down yields in an ef- fort to take up prices. Booster crop talk was a high crime and the new in some cases in pure optimism and in others of pure necessity—so that harvest bills could be paid, Thousands of Bushels Stored. ‘Thousands and thousands of bushels were placed in storage, much of it piled in golden heaps on the ground until better prices should come. _ Harvest and the bad reports from Canada and the Northwest came in time to send the price of wheat above a dollor as the Kansas crop began to move. The farmer got $1 or more for almost all his crop. When the spectacu- lar rises in price came it was estimated by State agencies that less than one- third of the crop had been placed on the market. This year, due to low freight rates Kansas was shipped direct to Galveston. grade wheat. They usually take what's left after the American mills finish their buying. And there also resulted such a glut at Galveston that an em- bargo on wheat was declared. At 4:30 o'clock, any morning back in 1920, one would have found on al- most any Kansas wheat farm, sleepy harvest hands, most of them out of the cities and many of them from the East tumbling out of their barn beds to feed horses in the darkness. They care- fully cleaned the shoulders, for upon horses and mules hinged the Important task of harvesting the wheat. After a bolted breakfast, they went into the field with a header barge. ‘The sun having dried the dew, the header began its interminable round of the field, its consort, the barge, hug- ging close to the elevator. A Huge Loaf Like Bread. ‘The barge filled, it headed for the stack yard, as anolher barge became handmaiden to the header. At the stack yard the driver and another man or two forked the headed wheat into the stack, a huge loaf resembling the bread it was to become. Other men came after the cutting and stacking was done to do the thrashing. But 5:30 on a wheat-belt farm in 1929 is different. A farmer afd his son, or perhaps a hand or two, leisurely eat breakfast. There is no particular hurry. There are no horses to curry and the combine can't get into the wheat until the dew has thoroughly dried. About 7 o'clock, the harvesters motor to the field. The tractor which pulls the (ombine is greased, supplied with gasolize and water, A _man on the tractor, one on the combine and a wheat hauler resting in his truck while the combine’s bins begin to fill comprise the crew. They can operate ‘a field twice as large as a six- | phan header crew could. They will cover it faster than the old-time crew and when they finish the crop is on the way to market.and not in the stack. Often, when the harvest is completed, the tractor which pulied the combine will be hitched to a plow. and, operated thd :ume e(uw. will x{un':nr; the ground at once for & new planting. But the sa of labor and the speec of work s not only interesting fea- SEA Then came pessimistic reports from | Increased It runs something like this: | ly every field of | the wheat situation feared that new | of Kansas wheat to bring up the Spring | ture of the widespread power farming |in Kansas. Rather, the most interesting phase, is the impetus which has been given ‘scientific farming. The Kansas farmer is utilizing every | modern resource for increasing the | profit an acre on his farm. He even is | adopting new methods before they | fully tested. Implement makers have | been making trips to Kansas to see if some of their already marketed devices | were operating successfully. Thousands of Windrow _harvesters | nave been in operation in Kansas this | year—not only manufactured Windrow | harvesters, but also old headers con- | verted into Windrowers. | They became popular overnight be- | cause they complemented the new.com- bine in a most important place—the | necessity that wheat be dead ripe to be | combined_satisfactorily. ~Slightly green or wet wheat cut and threshed in one operation produces & damp berry, in- clined to heat and get out of condition in the bin and so lose a part of its vajue. reen spots in a fleld or traces of weeds are troublesome to combines. And | there is always danger that wind or | hail “will damage a crop while it is | getting to the proper dead ripe condi- | tion. | The Windrower largely overcomes these difficulties. No one is worrying about the fertility of Kansas wheat lands now, not even the scientists. (Copyright. 1929, by North American News- peper Alliance.) FOUR ARE KILLED IN MIDWEST CRASHES Woman Is Among Victims Unlicensed Pilot's Plane ! Goes Into Spin. | —— | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, July 22—Four persons were killed yesterday in two airplane crashes in the Middle West, one here !and the other at North Platte, Nebr. Jens Jensen, 28, and Miss Hilda Schaufelberg, 21, were killed and Miss Pauline Taylor, 28, was injured criti- cally when Jensen’s plane fell. The engine stalled and the plane went into a tail spin, landing near the Akers Airport, west of Chicago. County police said they learned the | women had given Jensen, who was not | licensed as a commercial pilot, $5 to | take them aloft. “Frozen" controls were believed to have caused the North Platte accident | Henry Oldham, pilot for the Midwest | Aviation Corporation, was instructing | Mike Ryan in flying. They had been |in the air nearly an hour and were |about to land when the crash occurred neu‘r the North Platte Municipal Mr-i rt. Both Ryan and Oldham were killed. | vThe)’ lived at North Platte. |SNOOK CHANGES MOTIVE foreign affairs telegraphed Chinese ministers resident in countries signatory to the League of Nations covenant instructing them to inform the govern- ments to which they are accredited of “Russia’s unlawful attitude.” SOVIET ATTACK REPORTED. Russian Planes Terrify Pogranichnava Populace, Dispatches Sav. PEZPING, China, July 22 () —An Incresaiagly serious border situation in Manckuria over the week end counter- Acted gratification that American inter- vention under the authority of the Kellogg pact seemed to have averted actual hostilities. Chang Hsueh Liang, governor of Manchuria, reported to the Nationalist government at Nanking that Soviet forces opened an attack on the Chinese along the Suifen River on the eastern border of Manchuria at 8 a.m. Satur- ay. Chang sald the Chinese troops re- mained on the defensive. Russian troops, he said, were equipped with poison gas and 32 field guns. Delayed Associated Press dispatches from Pogranichnaya, sent Saturday morning, mentioned no battle, but the populace there was panic-stricke because of repeated demonstrations four Soviet airplanes above the city. Chinese fired upon the planes, bu* scored no hits. The same dispatch sair Vladivostok was cut off completely by rail, even the Amur railway beinz blocked by what the officials described as “floods” along the river by the same name. An appeal of President Chiang Kal Shek, who is also generalissimo of th= Chinese armies, to the commanding of- ficers and soldiery, was published here. Chiang called upon the armies to rise against “red imperialism” and uphold the sovereign rights of China. He declared the abolition ef unequal treaties and realization of national :n- dependence constituted the most im- portant points of the Chinese revolu- tionay program and said that every of- ficer ‘and soldier of the National army should be willing to sacrifice his life for these realizations. The manifesto concluded: “Russia’s arrogant attitude cannot be ignored. Otherwise how can we ever hope to abrogate unequal treaties and win our proper place in the family of nations? Unless we unite in the fight against Red imperialism our country and our peoples will perish.” The Nationalist government at Nanking published a manifesto to the world governments stating its case. ‘The pronouncement said that in view of Communist propaganda undermin- ing the government it had been con- strained to adopt measures of self- defense with regard to the Chinese Eastern Railway. It declared the Soviet government, disregarding the conse- quences, had adopted warlike prepara=- tions, ‘The manifesto, in conclusion, invited the world to give its attention to evie dence of subversive Communist propa= ganda in Manchuria emanating from the highest Soviet officials in, the province. Japanese news agency dispatches furnished what appeared to be the most authoritative report of events within Manchuria. Dispatches from Harbin said Wan Fu Ling, governor of Kedijunkiang dis- trict of Manchuria. would be appointed commander in chief on the western front with 80,000 troops. and Li Chen- Sheng, governor of Kirin district, com- mander in chief, with 60,000 men, on the eastern front. Dispatches said Red cavalry had ad- vanced to within half a mile of Man- chuli, at the western end of the Chinese Eastern Railway, where the rival armies were camping less than a mile apart. Japanese residents of both Manchull and Pogranichnaya have fled to Harbin upon the advices of their consuls, who viewed the situation as dangerous. wheat began to move onto the market | on export wheat, much wheat from ‘This created an unusual export situa- | tion. The foreign buyers got the best ! FOR SLAYING CO-ED | Attorneys Refuse to Divulge What| He Said, Other Than It Dif- fers From Confession. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohlo, July 22—Attor- | neys for Dr. James H. Snook anncunced | today the ousted university professor | had told them yesterday the real mo- | tive for the slaying of Theora K. Hix, his co-ed paramcur. They said it was entirely different from the alleged motive contained in Snook's confes- sion. 7 John F. Seidel, one of Snook’s attor- neys, made the announcement as he appeared in court and withdrew formally the request for a sanity hear- ing. He refused to divulge what Snook told him. With the sanity hearing. which was to have opened today. called off Snook will face a first-degree mur- der trial Wednesday THREE SLAIN IN RIOT OF 1,300 CONVICTS; ° REVOLT QUELLED (Continued From First Page.) session of the prison yard, the officials of the institution were powerless to halt | the progress of the flames. Fire ap- paratus from Pittsburgh was stationed on a hillock outside the walls near the burning building. The fire engine could not be taken into the yard, be- cause it was feared that the firemen themselves would be injured and also | because the prisoners would have made & rush for the open gate. The power house, which furnishes light to the prison, adjoins the carpen- ter shop and destruction of this build- ing would wreck the lighting system of A detachment of Chinese ariillery with 80.000 men arrived at Tsitsihar from Shannaikwan, Chihli Province. At Pogranichnaya the Chinese were sald to have fired upon the four Soviet planes which had been giving demon- strations over the city. The planes were not struck and as warning to the Chinese dropped a number of bombs on_ Russian territory. In explanation of the border situ- ation it was pointed out that communi- cations were slow and the purported aftitude of the home governments toward the controvetsy, choosing rather to settle it by peaceful means than war, had not yet been conveyed to the rival military forces. PEACE MOVE NEWS DENIED. heavy Japan Without Official Information on Kellogg Pact Action. TOKIO. July 22 (#).—The Japanese foreign office stated today it was still officially without information that Sec- retary of State Stimson and Foreign Minister Briand of France are giving their attention to the Russian-Chinese rfls‘ls and its relation to the Kellogg pact. The government has been kept in- formed through the press, but it is understood that the only official mes- sages on the subject quoted Washing- ton newspapers -of Saturday morning on Secretary Stimson's press conference Friday afternoon. On account of this situation, therefore, it is stated that the Japanese official attitude is that no commept can be made or adherence to the Franco-American move for peace announced, because of lack of informa- tion whether any such move actually has been made. ‘The foreign office spokesman today professed to be mystified by Washing- ton press dispatches and expressed doubt whether communications really have been made to Russla and Chins, adding that if the reports are true Secretary Stimson and Foreign Min- ister Briand acted without acquainting Tokio with their intentions. = Neither has any subsequent notification been the institution. At the outbreak of the disturbance . employes in the power house drew their fires to prevent it from being destroyed. Representatives of the State Depart- ment_ of Correction sald that over- crowding of the prison, combined with the fact that many of the inmates were serving long sentences, had created a sullenness among the inmates which had been smoldering for some time. FEDERAL ACTION WITHHELD. Application for Aid in Prison Riot Must 5 Go Through President. The War Depariment today refused to act on an application by Gov. Roose- .velt's office iir Albany that Federal troops be employed in the prison out- break at Dannemora. ‘The request was telephoned to the de- partment from Albany by the gover- nor's counsel. The department replied that Gov: Roosevelt must make application to President Hoover for the use of such troops and must state in his request that the New York State police means | have been exhausted. Officials of the department explained that they could not authorize t :;. Pederal '-r'?rs without permission sent to Japan. Officials, however, avoid expressions that might be interpreted as represent- ing American initiative. It is stated here there is confidence that any Amer- ican action will be taken in full con- cert with other interested powers. SON’S FIST KILLS FATHER IN FIGHT OVER WHISKY Four Other Children in Chicago Home See Encounter When Last Drink in Bottle Is Disputed. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 22.—Aleck and Ed- ward Jeschke, father and son, lol%;hl 1ast ‘night over who was to have the last drink from & bottle of whisky. The father was killed by a blow from the son's fist and the younger man was ar- rested. Four other children of Aleck Jeschke saw the fight. They said the son struck his father above the neart and that the 44-year-old man dmpfrd to the floor. He was dead when police arrived. Ed- ward, who is 21, was held today pending further inquiry.