Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1930, Page 2

FEEDN OFWHEAT LD FARM AD i Former Federal Official Says Drought Is Accomplishing Aims: of Board. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Ill, August 5.—Farmers throughout the grain belt have begun | 10 feed their wheat to the hogs and-to cut it for hay, reports to the grain trade here indicated today, and La Salle street hafled the news as an indication that Old Sol is having his turn at pro- ducing some farm relief. To the offices of the Government- | sponsored Farmers' National.Grain Cor- poration came = report that in sections of Montana wheat flelds .were being bought up to be cut for hay, where the hay flelds and pastures have been burned out. The loss to the corn crop from drought during July has been estimated here by grai~ brakers at about 400,000,- | 900 bushels. Arthur Jackson of the grain firm of | Jackson Bros.-Boesel here said he was | informed by & miller in Lafayette, Ind., | that load after load of wheat is beh;:] H e mill by farmers to 4 b‘:fifi zw‘hho( feed and taken back | home. : Nature Takes a Hand. | “Nature seems to be settling the farm relief problem,” said Bernard Snow, for- mer Assistant United States Secretary of Agriculture, now & member of the: | grain firm of Bartlett, Frazier & Co. me, “The tremendous loss of the corn crop during July,” he said, “a loss which 18 sull continuing, is likely to prove & i m?ggt!.u:: e “that _the heat, and ! drought were accomplishing “such’a re- duction of the crop surplus as was Ppro- 3 “by the Federal ; ; m n‘l’d that “it looks as though the Josses in com will ucomnllst; lhéndee\:z'd readjustment bettWeen: supply &n - mand of all products’and incidentally emphasize the fact that a y is not ‘the only factor to be reckoned with ‘etermining volume ‘of crop reduction. - /Re] rom ‘Ohlo put the total an- ‘tieipated loss to‘all farm crops in that _State from the drought at around$200,- 000,000, or half Ohio farmers' snnual The upturn of the wheat market here rday .was. escribed ‘lafgely- to: the 3 ‘demand for wheat as a Teéding substitute for corn. : “The i corn and ve shortage , #hift in relationships has already turned manufacturers of feed products, and feeders as well; to the use of corn substitutes,” M2 Snow said. “Wheat, ¢ oats, rye and ‘are being bought in . heavy volume for feeding s. The short hay crop and ion of pas- tures further forces the substitution of ! “The farm-feeding demdnd bids fair to absorb a large bulk of the burden- < some old wheat carry-over and thereby accomplish what governmental farm re- lief has found it. impossible to effect. [ It is likely to go even further and about a complete readjustment of ituation. “1 am convinced that the loss -of a * Jarge part of our corn crop will defl- nitely improve the situation of agri- ' culture, as well as stimulate a return general business activity.” . - FINGER OF WOMAN . SENT BY CHINESE IN DEMAND.FOR $50,000 Continuea ‘From First Page) emptied of foreigners, who departed for Bl Hankow. hanghai and . Changsha _dispatches said Com- -’;nhu killed 100 wealthy Chinese held ransom. z STATE DEPARTMENT CONCERNED. By the Associated Press, Development of new trouble areas in China continued to be reported last night ‘to the State Department by American diplomatic and , consular .agents and resulted in & g con- cern among department officials for. the :ll;ty of Amhe,rlnn citizens in_ the Far tern republic. Relatives .and friends of Americans in the bandit-infested’ areas and the territory over which ting is now go- letters and ‘tel- egrams to the department asking about the welfare of those they know in . China. Despite announcements by the .-department that all Americans extept one or two are safe in Changsha, many persons have sought direct assurances :‘eurdm‘ the safety of friends or rela- ves. CLp R | Department officials said last nhht} they were puzzled over the latest de- i-velopment at Kanchow, where Brig. “/.Gen. Ma has announmced he will vuh-{ draw with his forées, Dr. C. T. Wang, Chinese minister of foreign aflairs, has urged the American legation at Peip- : ing to effect as soon as possible the ! evacuation of Americans at Kanchow, : with the admonition that if they are { mot evacuated the Chinese government i eannot be responsible for their safety. ! The new development at Kanchow ‘was unexpected, and the department was awaiting further word as to the reason for Gen. Ma's impending with- ! drawal. There are some 18 foreign mis- jonaries, including & number of Amer- an Catholic missionaries in Kanchow. i\ American consular officers have i endeavoring for some time to have the American missionaries withdraw from the city, but they have refused to do so. ‘The department last night received & eable from American Consul Richard P. Butrick at Hankow, dated August 2 at 11 am., saying he had circularized : Americans at Wuhan, reminding them that evacuation plans, with slight modi- fications, which had been conveyed to them in April last year, were still in force. ‘The consul said that on July 29 the Public Safety Bureau at Kiukang had advised foreigners to leave Kuling with- f VASHIN¢ right " center. year-old grandson, bage, son and daughter of Uncle Jake, Bunch Blows Off-Pennock in Three Innings—-Ruth and s Judge Hit Homeljs. (Continiied From First Page.) fleld Jine, scoring Harris-and Judge. Lary threw out Spencer, ‘West going _Beese threw out Hadley. Two near i & X. Myer went Egk for Bengoughs pop. H. Rice walked. Lary forced H. Rice, Cronin to Myer. No runs. THIRD INNING. GTON.—Myer _tripled o Bluege fanned. Manush »Ik‘d to H, to W, popped o Gehrig. Croin ice.. No.quns, - | %) NEW YORK —Pennock:flied to West. Combs fouled to’ Bluege. Cronin threw out Reese, No runs. FOURTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Lazzeri _threw out Harris. Judge struck out. West ground- «d.to Gebrig. . No.runs. sdliess f NEW YORK—Myer 1iade a fine one- hand stop of Ruth's grounder and threw him out. Gehrig doubled to left field. Lazzer! singled.to left, scoring Gehrig. Bengough flied to West. H. Rice flied to Harris. One run. FIFTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Spencer tripled to left center. Hadley fanned. Myer lined & single over Pennock’s head to center. scoring Spencer. Bluege singled to 7ight, sending Myer to third. When Ruth"Jet the ball go by, Myer scored and Bluege reached second. Manush fiied .fo"Ruth. Cronin fouled to Ben- igh. “Two rups. New York—Laty Jined to Myer. Myer threw out Pennock. Combs: walked. Reese fanned. No rums. SIXTH INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Harris flied to H. Rice. Judge singled to right. Judge took second on a wild pitch. West walked. On a hit-and-rum play singled - to center, scoring Judge and sending West:to third. Hi anned. Myer grounded to Gehflg. One run. NEW YORK-—Rufh*hit a home run in the bleachers back of center field. It was his forty-first homer of the season. The drive sent the ball into the stand nearly 450 feet from the plate. It was the first timie Ruth hit a honter into the center-field bleachers here, and the first time the ball was ever hit in that sec- tion of the stadium. Gehrig fanned. Hadley threw out Lazzeri. Bengough walked. H. Rice's drive against the left- field wall went for a triple, scoring Ben- gough. Cooke batted for Lary and fanned. Two runs. k SEVENTH INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Wuestling now play- ing shortstop for New York. Biuege fanned and was thrown out by - gough. Manush bunted fod'' was thrown out by Pennock. Lazzeri threw out Cronin. No runs. F NEW YORK—Ruffing batted for-Pén- nock. Myer threw out Ruffing. “Combs singled through the box to center. Reese bounced a single off Judge's glove, sending Combs %o third. Ruth was No runs. in 24 hours and that local officials at Kiukang had informed Americans the notice was given in obedience to orders from Minister Wang. ‘The consul added Chinese have begun to move into Hankow from the outlying districts to the north and foreign banks are requiring clients to cover with war risk insurance certain cargoes that are shipped out of Hankow. The department was informed yester- day by American official sources that all Communists evacuated Changsha a few «days ago and only a few returned or re- mained. It was added that it sppeared the 53d Division of the Chinese Na- tionalist Army might make an effort to retake Changsha yesterday or today. The same advices stated that about 5,000 Hochien troops are at Yolanshan, west, of the island on which the foreign settlement of Changsha has been largely concentrated. Department officials expressed the inion that the 11 foreign vessels now off Hankow are sufficient to protect and evacuite foreigners in that city if nec- essary. Up to the present, however, it ‘was said, it has not been considered necessary for conferences with the other powers, with a view to internal ©o- operation in the situation. The Japanese embassy here has placed before the department all its available information from the Tokio foreign office regarding the action of the Japanese Government. The depart- ment sent similar information to the embassy on.the action 5o far taken.by. ) A EIGHTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Johnson now pitch- ing for New York. E. Rice batted for Harris. E. Rice popped to Reese. Judge hit & homer into the right-field bleachers. West singled to right. Spen- cer ‘took_base, being hit by a pitched ball. Hadley fouled to Bengough. Myer struck out. One run. NEW YORK—E. Rice now playing right field ‘for Washington. Lazzer] walked.~ Byrd batted for Bengough and flied to Manu$h. H. Rice forced Laz- geri, Myer to Cronin. Wuestling filed to West. No runs. NINTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Jorgens now catch- ing for New York. Bluege fanned for the third time, Manush singled past .Cropin ‘singled to left. center, ‘Manush o _third, r ' bounced off Johnson's hands to , and, a_double play ensued, Johnson to-Reese to ‘Wuestlingto Geh- T mw SORK —lohnaort_singied . s ni , sing] left. Combs was safe when Judge fum- bled his Srounder, ::hmon going 1o . - Reese*fanned: Ruth walked, filling the bases. Gehrig forced Ruth, Judge to Cronin, Johnson scoring and Combs going to third. Laszzeri popped to Myer. One run. - sen groun — Sir Harry Lauder will give medals de- signed by himself to the female swimmera in a_match at Scotland,” next year.-- - NATIONALS DEFEAT | - YANKEES,6T04 » It called out on strikes. Gehrig fanned, }. Rice's| best male and Dunoon, the custody of - Sheriff E. L. aiso witnesees. CUBBAGE 1S FREED AFTER 30 MINUTES’ & JURY DELIBERATION (Continued From Luray where Uncle Jake has successtully raised two families consisting-.of 12 soné and daughters. . .. a - The bent, little old man learned his :lessons long ago, he said, and he never learned them out of books. The jurors were able to see that .Uncle Jake was stooped with toll, that his legs had bowed from the long. miles they had borne Bim.. - g Such a man, the lawyers. defending ‘Uncle Jake pointed out, had learned to work ahd mind his own busimess and keep out-of trouble. Such a man, they said, wouldn't kill another unless to save himself. Relied on Testimony. The jurors who heard Uncle Jake give his version of how he shot and killed his ‘grandsen a month. ago -today will decide if ghe; old I:snu:_ll‘filsndu’m e alal h‘l" Fge. 2 shot . defense ", relied mon‘? upon ' the impression. which Uncle e’s own testimony uu‘{m , Uncle Jake wld‘how he h tried to ‘instruct “his-children "and his grandchildren . in” the ways .of peace and how, in spite of it all, some of the ng biood “just wou ve.” hile the sorrowful old méan- talked in trémbling voice, his eldest daughter, mother of ‘murdered youth, sat so close she could have reach- ed across the railing’' and touched him. A large, sad-faced woman, gérbed in stiff funeral bladk,' she sat stared fixedly st the bearded face of her father. She seemed as self-possessed and as remote from the proceedings as her husband, “Sonny Boy” Cubbage, father of the slain boy, whose long drooping mustache and sun-tanned countenance bore a look of habitual melancholy. These two, Fred Cubbag's mother and father, hastened on foot from their home, in Cubbage Hollow, across a spur to Uncle Jake’s cabin in an_ad- joining cove, where, they learned, Fred Cubbage lay wounded. Fell in Rye Patch. Pred had fallen on his back in a rye patch fringing his grandfather's yard, a charge of buckshot from the latter’s old*“byckeye” squirrel gun in his left thigh. That happened in Cubbage Hollow, on a Sabbath afternoon, in a high and in- accessible region of the mountains 15 miles south of Luray. The man who brought the pareats tidings of the tragedy &t their~home in Lucas Hol- low came also to get an automobile. He was' to_drive the car around the spur,.a “matter. of eight miles by the | torturous road, to get Fred Cubbage and take him to the nearest doctor irt Stanley Settlement, 10 miles below Uncle Jake's cabin. | The father who took the stand just | before Uncle Jake was called, told how !he and his wife reached Fred's side and did what they could to stop the fow of blood, while they waited for | the automobile to arrive. They could hear the laboring engine coming .up the mountain far below and it seemed an ‘age before it arrived. , ‘But " Fred was bleeding fast, his father said. They did not know much of first-aid measures and Fred did not survive the long jolting ride into Stan- l€y. He died, his father said, before the lights jof Ahe little settiement be- low. them came into view, almost three hours after -he had been wounded. Under - mare favorable circumstances, the gourt-was told ,the wound which let out, Fred's life blood might have proved of minof consequence. Uncle Jake Takes Stand. ‘When- Uncle Jake arose to take his on the stand, the impassive hill who jammed every avallable space i the court room, leaned forward in their chaivs. In their excitement they Quit fanning themselves with their straw hats which had been going cease- lessly since the trial gpened in the hot, stuffly chamber. “I'm going on 80,” Uncle Jake began, “and my.eyes and ears ain't what they was, Fred was bigger than I was and he wouldn’t listen when I told him to Bet off my graperty and go on home. “I'd told him and told him to get away and leave me alone. If he wasn't drinking he sure acted like it and I didn’t know what a feller in, that mind would do. “When he come at me there in front of my doorstep I backed away and told Him to behave: I'kept backin' and tellin’ him to behave. He kept comin’ on. I backed sll tiie way t6 my doorstep and then'I had to raise my gun and let him haye it. I can’t see very good and it looked like he had somethin' raised in his left hand. I knew he had a fruit jar in his right hand. I didn’t know what he'd do if he got his hands on me. I'm 0o old and too crippled up to fight and 1.can't see well enough hardly to shoot a gun. I almed to hit Fred in the leg, though, and I never meant to kill him. 1 ju:: wanted him to stop and leave me be” Sought to Settle Dispute. ‘The old jman told how he had ;fluht sooth out a m | ~his- lrimdxonagi W Mm a Bl “Uncle Jake” Cubbage; 79-year-old ‘mountaineer, went on trial yesterday at Lura) Upper left: Uncle Jake i Upper right: Mrs. Myrtle Cubbage, 16-year-old widow of Fred Cubbage, who was.shot to death by Uncle Jake. Jeft: Leonard Lucas (left) and Earl Kibler, two important witn Lucas as he w: THE EVENING ‘ STAR, "WASHINGTO! Va,, for the murder of his 19- brought into the court room. Lower esses in the case, Lower right: Melvin and Amanda Cub- —Star Staff Photos. ! i UTLTY RATEISUE IN 1582 1 SEE Roosevelt’s Pafley With Smith and Raskob Stirs Up. Speculation. By the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., August 5.— Political observers today professed to see the possibility of public utility rates as a National issue in 1932 as the re- sult of a conference among Gov. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt and Democratic party leaders here. d Despite repeated assurances'from par- ‘ticipants that their sessions were of no. consequence Whatever, the' politically minded insisted ‘more than ever to- day on attaching great Importance to them. As they regarded yesterday the mid- night pow-wow between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith and John-J. Raskob as having interesting possibili. ties in connection with the 1932 ].)l'enl:1 dential campaign, they were today in terpreting in a National Hght the Gov- efnor's espousal of the cause of the small consumer in connection with pos- sible reduction in utilities rates. ‘They discussed with interest the pos- sibility of a Democratic National plank in 1932 based on some such slogan as “Help Mr. Average Citizen to Keep His Expenses Down.” It was known, they said, that Gov. Roosevelt looked upon the proposed rate reduction of the New York Edison com- pany and three affiliated organizations as indicative of what might be in the minds of other utilities corporations. Gov. Roosevelt discussed at some length yesterday his letter to Milo R. Maltble, chairman of the Public Serv- ice Commission, in which he pointed out that the 60-cent meter charge pro- posed by the New York Edison Co. along with a cut of from 7 to 5 cents per kilowatt hour might mean an in- crease instead of a decrease in the cost to the small consumer. And he indicated that, in so far as he could guide the policies of the commis- slon without assuming a dictatorship in excess of his authority, the State of New York would in the future demand that public utilities corporations con- templating rate reductions consider first of all the small consumer. -But while he discussed the cost of electric light freély, Gov. Roosevelt just wasn't talking about politics at all. “I made up my mind last April,” he said, “that I wasn't going to talk poli- tics until September 29, and I am standing by that resolution.” September 29 is the day before -the Democratic State convention is to con- vene in Albany. taken exception to this. Fred and a crowd of young people, most of whom were related to Uncle Jake, had col- lected at the home of Albert Cubbage, sbout 100 yards from the -cabin of Fred's grandfather. Fred and a companion, the old man said, asked permission to go home to Lucas Hollow by @ pathway which lead through his yard. The old man said Fred had beeéfi troublesome; that had rubbed his fist across his head and | ears and threatened his life. “I told the other boy to come on,” Uncle Jake sald, “but T warned Fred not to 'come on my place unless he was going to behave himself. I went-on home then and sat dowrn.by the © ney flue. My daughter héard a t in the fleltl below. 8he told me. that Fred and the:other boy was eolan\gh\ up the hill toward my house, cursing and shouting. “I went to the door and asked Fred why he come by when I had warned him fo keep away unless he behaved. I told him to go on home. He said he'd go when he got ready. I got my gun, which was sitting loaded by the mantelpiece, and I waved him off from my door. He come at me and said, ‘Grandpap, I'll break that gun over your fool head.” I kept backing and telling him to go on and mind his own busi- ness, but he fellered me up. I was afraid to let him get any closer because I didn't know what he'd do if he could get hold of the gun. I couldn’t see him very well, but I shot at his legs. Fred Fell Backward. “It looked like he took one more step and was gonna fall on me, and then he fell backward. I saw a dark spot on the ground, and it kept widening. It whs Pred’s blood, and 1 told my children and the rest of ‘the folks there ‘what they could for Fred, - “He was 8 young blood and I am an old man. I talked to him and tried o tell him, but he wouldn't listen, He wouldn't behave. I shot him to save myself.” | DISTRICT'S SUPPLY OF-WATER IS G0OD Potomac Can: Keep Up With Needs Even if No Rain Falls for Sixty More Days. Despite the prolonged drought, cou- pled with an unprecedented consump- tion of water, the Water Department has no intention of restricting the use of water in the District, it was reit- erated today by D. W. Holton, super- intendent. Reports from als in charge of supply system, Mr. Holton said, indicate that in face of the greatly increased consumption the supply is adequate to meet all demands and that the Potomac can continue to furnish all the water Washington needs for 60 days more should there be no rainfall in this period. With this ‘assurance, Mr. Holton de~ clared he saw no necessity at this time of urging conservation of water, al- though he does not believe it should be deliberately wasted. River Abnormally Low. While the supply is sufficient, it was said at the. Dalecarlia Reservoir, that the river at Great Falls is abnormally low; but water is coming over the dam at the rate of 1,000 cubic feet a second, which is greatly in excess of the con- sumption. The lowest flow rate ever recorded over the dam was 700 cubic feet a Becond, back in 1914, Some idea of the effect the drought and heat wave have had on water con- sumption is graphically pictured on a chart which Mr. Holton keeps in his office showing the amount of water used every 24-hour perigd. Not since July 15 has the total consumption in any 24~ hour period been less than 90,000,000 gallons, and only three times since July 22 has it been less than 100,000,000 gal- lons. The average has hovered closely to 100,000,000 gallons a day. whereas last year the average for y, June, July, August and September, when con- sumption was highest, was 84,000,000 gallons a day. The peak consumption, however, was recorded for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. July 14, when 114,000,000 gal- lons were used. The closest approach to this figure was recorded for the 24- hour period ending at 8 o'clock this morning. The consumption in this pe- riod was slightly in excess of 109,000,000 gallons. Pressure Ts Reduced. Twenty-one ‘days, with consumption in excess of 90,000,000 gallons a day, Mr. Holton pointed out, constitutes the longest_period of peak consumption in the history of the Water Department. ['These consumption figures, he ex- plained, do not include water delivered to Arlington County, Va. and nearby points in Maryland served by the Maryland Sanitary Suburban Commis- sion. Maryland alone 1s dr-wln’ an average of 1,660,000 gallons a day fr three points in_the District's distribu- tion system—Chevy Chase, Georgia ! avenue at the District line and Rhode Island avenue northeast at the District line. Because of the abnormal consumption pressure’ has been reduced at several ints in the distribution system, which Po8 mecessitated the operation of the N tioalanly o the oany svening tion, icularly e early evenin when the use of water is at its height. The pumps have been working on both the second and third high service areas. The second service area includes Brook- land, Woodridge and other points in the Northeast section, Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights and contiguous sections are on the third service area. Mr. Holton said the low pressure in the fourth high-service area, in the vicinity of Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues; during periods of peak con- sumption- has' virtually' been . eliminated by the installation of a mew 20-inch main in Wisconsin avenue -and: Belt road. The loss in head, he explained, was caused by a 12-inch main. Now the fourth high area is bel served by both the 12-ineh main and the inch main. A fire engine has been used to keep up pressure in the fourth high area when 1t showed a tendency to drop. PREMIER AéKS SURETY ‘Will Not Attend London Confer- “ence Till Opposition Grants Truce. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, August 5 (#)—Premier G. W. Forbes said today he would not leave for the imperial con- ference in London this Fall until the opposition parties had agreed not to overthrow the government in his ab- sence. He saild that controversial matters would, as far as possible, be dispored of before his departure, The government has been in power since 1928, largely by aid of the inde- Ppendents. YEGGMEN ROBBING POST OFFICE TURN GORE INTO INFERNO (Cantiniued From First.Page) , ship fire companies were sent from Winchester, 12 miles away. Shortly after calling Winchester, Miss Shorb was driven from the telephone building by tHe flames, and by the time the fire companies had raced the 12 miles from Winchester the whole south side of the town was a seething muss of flames. Firemen ran their hoses to Back Creek, a small stream nearby, in an effort to get water with which to fight the flames, but the creek, its flow cut during the long Summer drought, could were forced to abandon the fight. ‘The rapidity of the spread of the flames sent families scurrying from their. homes in a panic, some with the clothes scorched from their very backs and few able to save any of their per- sonal effects. ‘Water was not even to be had in the little valley for drinking purposes, and efforts are being made by Winchester organizations to get water to those left homeless by the fire. ¢, ‘Lumbér Yard Destroyed. . Within an Hour after'the start of the Afire the 9,000,000 feét of lumber stored [in_the yard of J. Natwick & Co. was lenveloped in. flames, tongues of fire ‘shooting,_high into the sky and illumi- nating thie valley for mfles around. _ Firemen siccgeded cutting off the Weslern Frederick ‘Bank Bullding, but flames drove' them away from other buildings which they sought to save. ‘The list of dwelling -and business places destroyed by “the. conflagration was tabulated today ‘ss follows: The lumber ‘plant of the. J. Natwick & Co. Corporation; United States Post Office; Telephone Exchange of the South Branch Telephone Co.; dwellings of Mrs. 8. 8. Sechrist; apple packing plant of Glaize and Oates of Winchester; canning plant of G. W. Unger; filling station and residence of Charles W. Franks; lumber camp hotel, belonging to Jerome Bowman; boarding house occupled by William Wolford; residence of C. A. Stout, and business place of Jobhn W. Parish. Large quantities of dynamite were brought today. from Winchester to be used in case it was found necessary to dynamite to stop the blaze, Firemen reported that sparks from the blasing timebr have set (he mountainside afire and that outulldings on the farm of Willlam Smith, two ‘miles away, were set afife. The heat | tame so intense around the Weste, | Fred:rick Bank that all bank recc ds have been re- moved to the home of 11. O. Garvin, The Winchester & \Vestrn Rallway, which traverseg this region to Wardens- ville, W. Va., .7=3% t discontinue N, ° D! -'C., "'TUESDAY, "AUGUST ‘5, 1930. T Mercury Hits 100 Degrees or More in Nineteen U. S. Cities By the Associated Press. ville, Tnd., 106 xa’;u:xfnu. ‘Ohio, 100; Parkersburg, W. Va. *102; Des Moines, " Towa, 102; Pm 1. Louis, 106 Kans, 108; Omaha, 102; Dodge Ol 1087 Artheslar "oens: J08; Abllebe, Tex., 100. el uma, Ariz., “one of the noted hot spots” of the country, had & - temperature of 106, SEEK HOUSE SEATS Three Former Members to Attempt to Come. Back at General Election. By the Assoclated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 5.—Ten of Kentucky's 11 present Representatives and three former, two members, who were defeated in the Republican land- slide of 1928, will be among the ;18 candidates seeking election to the Na- tional House of Representatives in No- ‘vember. The only upset in the primary was the overwhelming defeat by approxi- mately three votes to one of former Gov. William J. Fields by former Repre- sentative Fred M. Vinson in the Demo- 20- | cratic primary in the ninth district. E. R. Kendall, Republican incumbent, Incumbents. in all districts were re- 18 IN KENTUCKY % "NEET ON DROUGHT Department of Aui_'icdlfure to Submit Report - Monday ‘on Effect of Weather. (Continued From First Page.) IHOOVER AND HYDE: [MAGARTHUR PICKED AS: CHIEF OF STAFF Brig. Gen. B. H. Fuller Named New Commandant : of Marine Corps. (Continued Prom First Page.), ;I:ewvbhmvtlmhwm‘nd '{m excessive heat was the major sontribuf cause of it deaths in th Dhtnel.ul:s‘l e ~ entire year of 1928, to sta- the two: in t‘:nxfi- and two WO twe in the eighties. " 24 Heat Deaths This Year. . In the same week last year there was only, one such case. this year there have been 24 deaths In which one of .the major contributing causes bas been the heat, according ¥ Dr. Schwartz. ‘Two local heat prostrations occurred yesterday. Mrs. Bertha Brown, 38, & laundress employed at the Pioneer Laundry -on Rhode Island avenue, was overcome at her work late last night and taken to Oasualty Hospital. She was unconscious for a while, but was “doing well” today, it was sald. Wil- liam A. Baff, 71 years old, of Chuck, Tenn., was ~prostrated at the tourist camp in East Potomac Park last night. He was taken to Emergency Hospital. All emnloyi- of the State Department who could be spared from their work ‘were excused at 1 o'clock on account of the heat. myy-lewn(unmu- were excused from work in accordance with a policy that has prevailed on the hottest days during the present heat wave. The continyed drought in this section today when more Mary- put on a restricted wa- and & bitter fight continued uul#&‘m of forest fires in the western end of the State as the mercury mounted. ‘Two forest fires In the vicin- ity of Francenia, Va., raging since-Fri- turned either by victories in the pri-|day over & wide area, necessitated the mary or by nomination without opposi- tion except L. L. Walker, Republican, eighth “district, who was not a candi- date to succted himself. Results of Primaries. Results of Saturday’s primary, as tab- ulated from unofficial returns, and the nomination without party opposition of nine Congressional candidates, made the following line-up today for No- vember: Pirst district—W. V. Gregory, Demo- erat, bent, no ition. Third district—John W. Moore, Demo- crat, incumbent, no opposition.. Fourth district—Cap -R. Carden, Democrat; J. D. Craddock, Republican, incumbent. Neither had primary op- position. Pifth district—Maurice H. Thatcher, Republican, incumbent. ‘No opposition. Contest in Sixth Distriet. Sixth district—Brent Spence, Demo- erat; J. Lincoln Newhall, Republican, incumbent. Spence unopposed in pri- mary. Newhall defeated Mrs. Marie C. Haller in primary. Seventh district—Virgil Chapman, Democrat; Robert Blackburn, repub- lican, incumbent. Chapman defeated L. C. Littrell in pnmgryl. Blackburn len. ocrat; Pal H. Gilbert "defeated Thomas P. Reed. Taylor was unop- posed.. | 1984 Ninfji district—Fred M. Vinson; Dem- ocyat; Elva R. Kendall, Republican, in- cumbent. Vinson defeated Willlam J. Fields and W. C. Hamilton in the pri- not supply the water and the firemen | mary. Kendall was unopposed. Mrs. Langley Beats Twe. Tenth district—A. J. May, Democrat; Mrs. ‘Katherine Langley, Republican, incumbent. May defeated D. Glenn Sublette and J. C. Coldiron. Mrs. Lang- ley defeated D. H. Baker and Hector Johnson. Eleventh district—W. W. Duffield, Democrat; Charles Finley, Republican, incumbent. Duffield led Arthur Rhorer, T. R. McBrayer, H. . Reed and T. W. Gallagher. Finley defeated Judge Wil- liam Lewis, Godfrey I. Rader and H. L. Taylor. Senatorial Nominees Unopposed. Gilbert, Chapman and Vinson are the three former Democratic Representa- tives who are seeking to regain the seats they lost in the Republican landslide two years ago. » L. Walker, Republican, of the eighth district, was the only Repre- sentative not to seek re-election. Candidates for United States Senator are M. M. Logan and Ben Williamson, Democrats, for the long and short terms, respectively, and John M. Robsion, Re- publican, incumbent, candidate for both the long and short terms. All were without primary opposition. ILLEGAL STUDENT VOTING IS ALLEGED IN PENNSYLVANIA (Continued From First Page.) eandidate and take away from others.” Where erasures were made and new marks substituted, invariably they were favorable to the Brow-Davis ticket and against Pinchot and Bohlen, he said. “To give the impression that these ‘were technical errors is entirely unfair,” he_added. The minimum of errors found in a single box was 16 and the maximum 1,515, he testified. The list of Pennsylvania witnesses included most of the .principal workers for both Secretary Davis, the winner in the Republican Senate nomination race, and Senator Grundy, the loser. Nearly all came from Pittsburgh and Phila- delphia. $87,500 Contribution, Alleged. Among them were Walter A. Bonitz, Pittsburgh, who, the committee was told last May, gave $87.500 to the Davis-Brown cause. Francis Shunk Brown was a candidate for Governor and is contesting the nomination of Gifford Pinchot, a former Governor, in the Pennsylvania courts. ‘Warren F. Doane, Philadelphia, one of Senator Grundy’s secretaries, whose activities in behalf of the American riff League were inquired into by the Senate Lobby Committee, was another witness, as were J. H. Lucheim, jr, Philadelphia contractor, and S8amuel W. Salus, State Senator from Philadelphia, both Davis supporters. Frank J. Gormap, to Gov. Pisher, a Grundy man; Ra) d Pit- cairn, cllllpllfn manager for Francis H. Bohlen, wet senatorial primary can- didate; C. C. McGovern of Hlu‘\lflh. Pinchot's campaign manager; W. R. Douglas of Philag t;?hll, manager for ‘Brown, and Dean Hoffman, managing editor of the Harrisburg Patriot and supporter of Sedgwick K of Lock Haven, Democratic senatorial nominee, also were called. operations today due to the intense heat and danger of fire. Insurance ‘men stated that not one-third of 'entire loss would be covered by insur- ance. This is the fourth time in the past 12 years that Gore has been wi .out by five. However, on each otheér ;cculon the lumber camps escaped the ames. ¢ cials to credit votes to their favorite - prison impressment - of gangs from fighting service. Occoquan’; into fire Officlal Wi thought to_the by Louls J. s tional Grange, that the drought would assumie” proj of & major catas- trophe unless rain fell within 30 éays. The "~ weather maps, meanwhile, con- tinued. to show no indication of perma- nent telief. President. Hoover was said to be’viewing the situation with grow- ing concern. Asks Extension of Credit. Some of the relief measures under consideration involve special low freight rates to move hay and feed into cattle~ growing sections deprived of their nat- ural pasturage. Maximum extension of credit = facilities farmers in - the Na- Farm “Joard has asked bankers and business men ‘to extend credit fa- cilities to furnish feed for cattle and dairy herds as appeals reached the board for aid. Willlam F. Schilling of the Farm Board said 14 important dairy States had had only 36 per. cent rainfall during the growing months, not only damaging crops, meadows and corn, but decreasing- milk production. The States he named were Kansas, Ne- braska, Missourl. Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Michigan. Ohio, Iilinols, Jowa, Indiana, North Dakota ln*l Mlnnutx:ln. s ) ‘emporarily, a , Washingtonians will derive a little benefit from cooler weather, but the official forecast for today gave the disconcerting news that no rain is in sight for several days. A few drops of rain that fell in the Bethe:da and Chevy Chase districts of Montgomery _County _raised hoj which the Weather Bureau quickly dashed. This little sprinkle occurred during the early morning hours. It also sprinkled & bit in sections of Washington between 6 and 7 o'clock this morning. This may have account- ed for a minimum temperature of 73 degrees early in the morning. Thermometer Over 90. The only enccuruhlnl word from the forecaster was to the effect that the thermometer would not go as high as yesterday's peak of 101.8 degrees at 5 ‘The mercury, however, will go over 90. Registering 79 degrees at 8 o’clock, the mercury was 85 at 9 o'clock, 89 an hour later and 91 at 10:30 o'clock. ‘While the water supply for the metro- gollun area in Maryland is sald to be oldirg: its own, due to the supply from the 1%strict of Columbia system, the reports for other Maryland communities was discouraging. An indication of the drought in the Washington district is seen. from records which show a total rainfall of only 2.30 inches during the entire month of July. The normal rainfall, it was said, should be 4.71 inches. 2 8lightly cooler temperatures are com- ing.on the wings of cool winds originat- ing in the Ontario, Canada, district, it was said, but, except for occasional lo- eal showers, so slight as to afford no relief, the aridity of the section north of Washington will continue. The Weather Bureau was careful to point out, however, that today’s lower temperatures do not mean an end to the heat wave. It will continue hot as far ahead as the bureau can forecast. New Maryland Records. Summer heat records in Maryland, necessitating further restrictions ‘of ‘water diet, were broken at several points yesterday, notably Hagerstown, where 108 degrees was registered. It was 101 for three hours in Baltimore. At Cumberland a drastic curtaiiment of the city’s water supply was made mandatory by an ordinance adoptes yesterday by the City Council. At Annapolis, the State capital, fines of $10 to $20 are to be imposed on resi- dents who waste water, the water board i ruled. Sinking of emergency wells and the laying of a pipe line a mile and a half to a stream at Crownsville were con- sidered by the board. Several hundred men, continued to battle forest fires r-.lna along a 20- mile front near Cumberland, on Dan's Mountain. More than 600 were drafted by State police at Lobaconing. At Frostburg authorities began driv- ing an artesian well and considered the purchase of several npnng,u Late yesterday the forest burn- ing in the neighborhood of Franconia, Va. had spread dangerously near the little town of Acotink. A sudden change in the wind, veering the flames Capital, is at present head of the Army department in the Philippines. Gen. MacArthur, although borm in Arkansas, has lived in the District Zor week, as many s in the many years and received his early e cation here. He is the youngesi gen- eral on the active list of the Army and has had a meteoric career in the military service. He is the son of the late Lieut. Gen. Arthur MacAr- thur and the grandson of former Chief Justice MacArthur of the District Su- reme Court, 3 . Graduating fro mthe Military Acad- emy in.1903 near the head of his class, he was assigned to the Corps of e neers and h’:cducllurl:mo( n:lny !n;:- neering proj n _different parts the country up to the time of the en- trance of the United States into the World War, when he was transferred to the Infantry in the grade of colonel. Shortly afterward he was appointed & brigadier general in the National Army France as chief of staff quently he was the 84th Infantry Brigade and later had command of the celebrated Rain- bow Division. He took. an active in the engagements at Luneville, - carat and the c-Soulan sectors and later in the operations at Cham- pagne and the Aisne-Marne defensive and the Meuse-Argonne offensives. Has Many Decorations. Following the armistice, he was at- tached to the army of occupation on the Rhire, He was awarded many dec- orations for his achievements, includ- g | few S |rines in the Dominican Republic. ing the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Honor, Ix de Guerre, Croce di Guerra and Order of the Crown by Belgium. The active charac- ter of his work in the field may be judged by the fact that he was twice wounded. 2 On his return to the United Sfates he was appointed superintendent of the West Point Military Academy and served there for several years. Since then, he has commanded the 23d Brigade in the Philippines, the 4th Corps Area at Atlanta, the 3d Corps Area at Baltimore, which embraces the District of Columbia; and for the past ears has been in command of the ! Philippine Division at Manila. Recently he was ordered relieved of that duty, and assigned to the command of the 9th Corps Area at San Francisco, which orders have now been canceled by his appointment to the office of chief of taff in this city. He is a member of several clubs, in- cluding the Army and Navy Club and Chevy Chase Glub of this city, and the | Bohemian Club of San Francisco, the Baltimore Country Club, and the Green Spring Valley H unt Club. . x Fuller From Michigan. Gen. Fuller ‘was born in Michigan in 1870. He was apoointed to the Naval graduation July 1, tenant’ in 1 1903, and I 'Upon the United States’ entrance to.the World War, in 1918, he was given tem- porary rank of brigadier general, which rank was made permanent -in 1924. Gen. Fuller participated in various en- gagements in the Philippine Islands in 1899, and ‘was comm: »for gallant and courageous conduct in the battle of Tientsin, China, during the Boxer ze- 1 bellion in- 1900. . After a period of service on shore and: at “sea he ‘was ordered. 0 the Naval Station -in Honolulu ~where he :ebrv“ed from June, 1904, to 3 After & tour of duty as commanding officer of the Marine: Barracks, navy yard, at Philadelphia; Gen. Fuller was detached August 31, 1918, to. command the second provisional brigade of “l:; |assumed command of that brigade on August 21, 1918, and remained there two years. He also’ served on .the staff of the military governor of Santo Domingo as secretary of state, interios, police, war and navy, in‘ addition to his other duties. v Was Assistant Commandant. On December 14, 1925, Gen. Fuller started his dutles as assistant to the * major general commandant g* head- | quarters n this city, in Whiee s.acity he served until the death of Maj. Gen. Commandant Neville, when he was ap- pointed as acting commandant. Gen. Fuller has received meny deco- rations, among them being the Spanish Campaign Medal, the Philippine Cam- paign Medal, the . China campfl:n medal, the Expeditionary Ribbon, the X:;ll:ry Medal for service in the West s, the pantry of her home. The chick sur- vived. $ Heat claimed the champion hog of the Hagerstown, Md. section, an im- mense Poland China boar, which had been fattened for exhibition pur) 8 The porker tipped the scales at slightly ver 1,000 pounds a few days ago and was to be fattened to 1,400 pounds by the time of the agricultural fair. The hog was owned'by Adam Baer, a farmer. Two Die at Hagerstown. Two human lives were lost as & re- sult of the record heat at Hagerstown, which reached 108'; degrees at (he Government weather station. William McCrory, 62 years old, was -overcome while working on a building and top- pled to the ground to his death. mis. Clara B. Cushen was overcome yester- day morning and died last night. Farmers of Frederick County, Md., have suffered heavy losses in the worst drought in 75 years, according to ‘a county_crop survey made by County Agent Henry R. Shoemaker for the Uni- d | versity of Maryland Extension Service. With the exception of wheat and har- ley, which netted a normal yield, all other crops in this section will be fram 40 to 75 per cent below the average. ‘The water shortage, with Frederick under a rigid conservation scheaule, :2 growing more acute. Streams through- out the county are very low. Wells on many farms are dry. A number of farmers in the northeastern section of the county are hauling water for thelr livestock. Pastures have been so burned that the daily shipment of milk from Fred- erick County to Washington and Bal- timore has been much reduced, the sur- vey shows. Three canning factories in Frederick will be put on part-time basis this week and the sugar corn' crop s so light, 20 per cent of normal, that & large number of factories will not open at all. south, it was said today, would force residents on the town outskirts to aban- don their homes. A gang of 50 prisoners from: the District workhouse at Occoquan, fought the fire at Franconia for six hours Saturday. They succeeded in saving two farm houses. Crops, Dblasted by drought, now lay blackened in the path of the fire. Yesterday a squad of 30 prisoners, reinforced by. scores of farmers ,entered the threatened area l‘ltn. stubbornly combatting an ever- w! d!'nmf line of flames. If a juncture between the two lines of fires is effected, reports state the fire may bscome uncontrollable. Back firing, usually an effective counter check, is rendered e ly hazardous couniryadL. Water, now preciously con- coun e. Water, now con- served for drinking purposes, is prac- tically unavailable for other purposes in the section. - 1t was 80 hot at Sharpeburg, Md. yes- terday, that an was hatched by the t. Mrs. Keontz had bought & dozen esid But them in From Danville, Va., came the report that the drought is the worst in the memory of Mayor Harry Wooding, who will have served as mayor of Danville for 38 consecutive years the middle of this month. - Concern .over crops is growing daily. v Continuation of the Trainless season has caused many Governors and State forestry departments to issue fire-pre- vention warnings, sav: reports to the American Tree Association. Golf clubs, Summer hotels and tourist camps are being posted anew with ‘fire warnings for auto-driving guests and campers, who are being ad to break matches and drown or stamp out camp fires right after a meal. “Care can keep down the forest fire loss,” Charles Lathrop Peck, president of the association, sa “The Ameri- can people must exercise this c:ution as never before. Yearly forest fires rost about & million dollars a .day on the average even when we get ram to hsip the fire fighters. The sitiation is'at & crisis right now, so do-mot let a fife or » lighted mates ast-awsy from you.”