Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1936, Page 22

DROUGHT TO CHECK EXPORT OF WHEAT Statisticians See Reduced Crop Only Enough for Domestic Needs. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 26.—Drought, un- abated yesterday in the stricken Spring wheat belt, has virtually cut down whatever hopes America held of returning to an export basis for the grain this year, leading trade statisticians asserted. While a sprinkle —barely a dust settler—fell in scattered parts of the arid territory, crop authorities here agreed there was little likelihood now of realization of the forecast sev- eral months ago by Secretary of Ag- riculture Henry Wallace that July might see this country back in its his- toric role of wheat exporter. “Our chance is gone,” commented B. W. Snow, former Assistant Sec- retary of Agriculture, and Nat C. Mur- ray, widely-known private crop fore- caster, nodded general agreement. Cooler Weather Beneficial. Snow pointed out that his latest estimates figure a Spring wheat crop of only 150,000,000 bushels, which, with Winter wheat expectations of 500,000,000 bushels, would just about meet domestic requirements. Cooler weather offered some alle- viation for the sorely beset areas of | the Dakotas and adjacent States, into | which the crop-consuming drought Br the Associated Press. MIZE, Miss., June 26.—R. W. Ford, 43-year-old druggist, who received a registered package containing British government bonds amounting to $142,- 625 on Wednesday, went calmly about his business today while others sought to solve the mystery surrounding his gift. The bonds arrived on the only train into this village of 429 persons, on a branch line of the Illinois Central. The package was mailed from British Columbia. The bonds ranged from $25 to $30,000 denominations. The envelope was closed with the offi- cial seal of the Canadian govern- ment. 8. C. Tanner, the postmaster, ad- vised Ford to send the package to Hospital Ground Made Beautiful By Ex-Patient The ‘Tuberculosis Hospital grounds are getting a beauty treatment from a patient who became so expert at landscape gardening that he was employed regularly by the institution. To benefit himself as well as the hospital, John C. Caton, a former bread salesman, launched a sort of independent beautifica- tion project. Hospital authorities were so pleased and Caton’s health grew so improved that he was hired to continue the work. ‘With the aid of two other male has spread. [ Weather Bureau offices here said temperatures generally in the 80s had | replaced those which reached unoffi- cially as high as 110 degrees in North | Dakota. But while skies clouded in Northern Illinois and the general fore- | cast for the North Central States | indicated showers, there were none in sight for the Dakotas. Farther West, | however, thunderstorms were forecast for Montana and Wyoming, sections of which have been badly burned. Wyoming Failures Reported. patients he recently transformed an ugly plot near the Children’s Health Camp into an elaborate garden. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936. Man Gets $142,000 in Bonds, Doesn’t Know Who Sent Them post office inspectors at New Orleans, as “there might be a catch in it.” Ford's wife declared, “If he has any friends in British Columbia, he doesn’t know who they are—they must have moved there recently.” P s o KURZ CASE MOVE IS HELD ILLEGAL Fredericksburg Judge Holds F. B. 1. Transported Prisoner With- out Authority. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., June 26.—Trial of Earl Conner Willlams, 24-year-old St. Louis colored man, for the mur- der of Miss Fannie Kurz in a Fred- ericksburg battlefileld park, entered its fifth day after a session last night in the United States District Court here, at which Judge Luther B. Way held that one move by Federal agents in the investigation of the case was illegal. The jurist ruled that Williams was illegally transported from the Henrico Jail here to the scene of the crime and ordered that Federal Agent John M. Keith, in charge of the Washing- ton field office. could not testify as to what the colored man said on the trip. The decision was made to exclude this testimony while the jury was out of the court room. - GOING AWAY? Accident and Bagrase Insurance. Le Roy Goff 1036 Woodward Bldg. Natl. 0340. LANSBURGH’S Tth, 8th and E A late report from Wyoming by | State-Federal Crop Statistician George Knutson said crops were a total fail- ' ure in drought areas, except where irrigation water was available. Other | Wyoming authorities estimated that'i 8,000 head of cattle had been ship- | ped out of districts lacking feed and | that 400 additional carloads of stock would move out by Saturday. In North Dakota, Gov. Walter Wel- | ford reported on the $50,000,000 to $100,000.000 drought drafted this week in Washington. Meanwhile, farmers in several States prepared for war on another crop destroyer, grasshoppers. In Iowa calls for poison bran mounted after re- ports of a migration of a great horde of the insects eastward over Nebraska, but no reports of their alighting were received “Apparently they came down over a large area,” said H. C. Aaberg, assistant Iowa secretary of agricul- | ture, “and since there were large numbers of the pests already present. the influx hasn't been notice Northern Illinois and Southern Wis- consin planters Praises Federal Officials. Gov. Welford told the Bismarck conference on North Dakota’s pre- | dicament from the drought that a “spirit of co-operative feeling” pre- vailed among Federal officials necessity and our farmers and town people to do without the necessities of life.” Several delegates from the counties commented that “crop prospects are poorer even than at any corresponding date in previous years.” They brought estimates of county resources and re- quirements in order to map out with State officials a comprehensive pro- gram of relief. aid program | also were making | ready to fight the insects with poison. | to | whom he had outlined the State’s ! needs. The Governor said that in | once again seeking Federal aid, North | Dakota authorities acted only from | “rather than permit | MEN"S soles and heels. AIR-COOLED DEPARTMENT—S§' NAtional 9800 Mail or Phone Orders—DI. 7575 Foot Comfort Insurance! KEDS 1.50 Going away on the 4th? 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