Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1932, Page 6

A—6 FARM WOMEN TAKE 10 “CUR” SELLING Marketing of Home Products Described in Report to Federation Branch. By the Associated Press. ‘ CHICAGO, April 21 —Farm women | over the country have taken a tip from stock biokers. They're selling on | the curb—only it isn't the same kind | of a curb, | Women in rural districts fn increas- | ing numbers are doing their bit to| keep the farm wheels turning by going into market themselves with surplus products, homemade preserves, canned foodstuffs, baking and handicreft— even to bartering with city housewives from the family automobile parked at the curb This is sponsored and encouraged by the women's division of the American Farm Bureau Federation and a survey of results announced by Pfeiffer. ce director, Farm Bureau women in Illing nessee and Alabama were especially | active in marketing. Co-operative Selling Profitable. ‘Through co-operative selling, Illinois farm women made a gross sale of $109,000 in 1931 in 10 counties, accord- | ing to a report made by Mrs. Henry J. Mies, president of th ois Home Bureau Federation. stimated that $95,000 was net In Il s the m types, the booth system. in which each contributor has a space in which sells her produce; the pool s which produce is pooled and s contributors assigned to do so. third, the food shop or tea room. Commonplace products can be made g0 attractive, if farm women will use initiative, that city buyers scramble for , Mrs. J. D. Giles, Alabama Farm Home and Community chair-| id in her repart | rb markets have been established Alabama towns, Mrs. Giles re- answered a question rm women How to into cash nd, Tennessee Homes nity cheirman, said the n of her State are finding rofitable. The first blished at Jack- are on are of three morn- s in the State. All-Year Market Planned. are being made by the federation to get the women to de-| velop an all-year-around market -by| adding to seasonal foodstuffs “such things as candies, cakes, salt rising. nuty and corn light breads, individual cheese | pizs. lamp shades, block printed fancy work. And in the East the attention of tiae New York Federation of Home Bu- reaus has been attracted to the wife of a dairy farmer whose income has ¢ reduced. She is using to meake homemade | “Behind each article or product the| women are selling is a story of farm need,” said Miss Pfeiffer. Dog Knows Three Languages. - | Billo von Gromerghaven, who Wom | the championship as the best of the 120 dogs at Alsatian League Winter bench show in London, will obey orders in English, French and German, but not always for long. He was born in Ger- many, is a fully qualified police dog and is to be a movie star. He was only gecond in the “obedience class.” One test was that the owners leave the dogs in a room. and the canines must not get up untl so ordered. Just at the | end Billo stretched himself and lost three points. Doctor Saves Woman, But Loses Own Life When Lancet Slips By the Associated Press INDEPENDENCE, Mo., April 21.—Responsibility for both life and death rests upon & lancet of Dr. Charles Keown. Dr. Keown, 52 years old. died today of blood poisoning incurred when the instrument slipped while he was treating an infected finger of Mrs. Frank Adams April 2. It plerced one of his own fingers Mrs. Adams, cured, gave blood for a serum in a vain attempt to combet the poiscning. There were five_transfusions The physician was a native of Lamoni, Iowa. POLICE CHIEF CAUGHT Indianapolis Official Has to Ex- plain Lack of Building Permit. INDIANAPOLIS, April 21 (P).— Michael F. Mcrrissey, who directs law enforcement in this Hoocier capital, | himself became enmeshed in a little lJaw infraction yesterday, and had to do some explaining to WQ Geler city officiale. A building inspector, passing Chief of Police Morrissey's home, noted a contractor building a screened inclos- ure on the porch, and inquired for a certificate of building permit. The chief had none. “I thought the contractor was sup- posed t- get the permit.” Morrissey alibled to the city building commis- and a member of the City Plan Comm who decided to “let it go this time.” Soré, btfilflrning feet Due to Dermastalsis Dangerous Foot Ailment Destroys Celis Blmxmc,-chmnm—m ing, throb- bing foot pains—thick, harened cal- fouses...Beware these danger signs of der- mastalsis. Check this harmful spreading {foot ailment in time. Dermastalsis actually feeds on living * cells. 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By the Associated Pr WOODSTOCK, Ill., Apr= bank robb~ ist, stood convic ound him guilty of roudINg with a gun the Algonquin State Bank and of the burglaries of that bank and of the First National Bank of Marengo. He was convicted Monday of the rob- bery with a gun of the Marengo in- stitvtion. Loftus, confessor of 13 bank robberies | throughout the country, in which he obtained approximately $100.000. is ac- cused also of kidnaping a Tucson, Ariz., banker snd i= susvected as slayer of h his three rapid trials without counsel, as he had dis- missed his lawyer after his first con- viction. Captured in Mishawaka, Ind., April 3 while posing as a broker, Loftus im- mediately confessed several bank rob- beries, officiais said, but denled the kid- naping and slayings. Officials said that Loftus admitted also contracting several bigamous mar- Tiages. Sentence will probably be pronounced Friday. An American company is constructing s second bridge across the Pearl River at Canton, China. 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