New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1923, Page 17

VHEAT SLUMP 1S A 055 T0 FARMERS 472,000,000 on Wrong Side of Ledger, Is Estimated Kansas City, Mo., July 20—As their reward for a season's work, the farmers of the United States will ave to pocket a loss of $472,000,000 on this year's wheat crop as result of he recent slump in wheat prices. That is the estimate of J. C. Mohler, ecretary of the Kansas state board of agriculture. ‘The slump, caused mainly by over- [production’ throughout the world, vill sweep away the earnings of imillions of farmers, Mohler estimates nd-leave them poorer than they were F year ago. It means a check in the prosperity iwave that has swept the country dur- ng the recent months, he believes, lbut will not bring on a panic. The loss estimate is based on a production cost of $1.36 a bushel, the estimate of what it costs a farmer to raise a bushel of wheat in Kansas [this year. The farmer will get only an average -of 77 cents a bushel for lhis product. Must Offset Losses. “It means 40,000,000 people of the imiddle west and west will have to cut down expenditures during the coming year,”” Mohler says. o T means there must be a change in the mode of living of farmers and those 'who depend upon the prosperity of the farmers for a living. “Of course, farmers will make a. profit in other lines, possibly from their livestock and corn,” the agri- lcultural expert continues. *‘But one can see that it will take a great deal of profit in those lines to offset the losses of wheat growers. “Kansas farmers will be $55,000,- 000 worse off for their year of work and investment in growing wheat. “I am not a calamity howler and 'want to make the reservation that Kansas farmers have seen hard times before, and will pull threugh some way. They still will ride in motor cars, but many of them will be old ones, I fear.” Last year the average price receiv- ed by Mansas farmers for wheat was U0 cents. The situation is such that farmers lsimply will have to give up raising (wheat in such large quantities,” Moh- lier says. “It is idle to expert legis- ation of any other factor to increase wheat prices while the world markets lore being flooded. Declining Market “The farmers of this continent lobeyed the economic law and pro- iduced more wheat when more wheat was needed. They are just as certain 0 obey the economic law and produce less wheat when less wheat is needed. “It is comparatively easy to extend business on a rising market. It is difficult to readjust a business on a profitable basis with a falling market, but that appears to be the big job confronting the wheat farmers of the fUnited States. PuA rédultion of wheat acreage and [more diversified farming in the wheat prodicing states constitutes the only jcartain remedy. i “I believe it has been clearly shown jthat legisiation cannot be depended upon to make wheat a profitable crop when there is an overproduction. “Our own agricultural college has recommended ‘that farmers feed fwheat to hogs, saying they can get las much as a dollar a bushel in that way for their wheat if present prices lor hogs continue. The experts have made a close study of how much 'wheat it takes to put a pound of weight on a hog and I am willing to take their figures. “Much depends upon the grade of wheat and how it is mixed with other feeds. It might be very profitable to feed a low grade wheat to hogs.” Strike Improbable Asked regarding the suggestion of Governor Jonathan M. Davis, “dirt farmer” executive of Kansas that wheat sellers go on a strike, Mohler H ‘I believe such a movement would have to take in virtually all of the wheat producing states to be success- ful. It would be hard to arrange with banks to liquidate loans.” Mohler's belief is that the big world market, which the United States has had the last few years, is being narrowed down rapidly by European countries returned to pro- duction of wheat—something they ldropped during and immediately aft- er the war. “Russia and the Balkan stateg once more are in the field,” he said. “India already has harvested a reec- lord crop with an exportablc surplus of at least 60,000,000 bushels this year land the exports as 100,000,000 bush- els. It must be remembered that India exported only 9,000,000 bushels last year and year before last im- ported wheat. “As to the increase in production in our own country: During the war perlod and since then the wheat acreage has Increased about one- third and during the same period the wheat acreage in Canada has al- most doubled. “In Kansas we used to plant twice las much corn as wheat. Now - we [plant twice as much wheat as corn. “We simply must get back' to the old ratio. In the meantime we have 0 learn our lesson and stay in debt nother year or two." GIRL, 14, HELD AS SLAYER. [Alleged to Have Pushed Boy of 4 From Pler at Chelsea, Mass. Chelsea, Mass.,, July 20.—Elizabeth McDonald, 14 years old, was arrested jyesterday charged with the murder lof James J. McDonald, 4 years old.! 8he was placed in charge of juvenile ourt. The boy’s body was found Monday fternoon in a shallow pool near a pler in Chelsea. Other children said that Elizabeth had pushed him from he pler. The police said yesterday at the girl had confessed. ARCHITECT DIES, Chicago, July 20.—William Hola- bird, architect, noted for having orig- nated the skeleton type of building, dled yesterday after a long iliness. I W. W. THREATENS TOTIE UP PORTS Abandons Port Arthur Trip--May Gall General Strike By The Assoclated Press. Port Arthur, Tex,, July 20.—The descent of 20,000 foot loose members of the Industrial Workers of the World on Port Arthur itself, a city of approximately 20,000 has been called off and instead a general strike of the marine workers of the I. W. W, is threatened. But a few members of the advance guard had arrived here when the cdramatic 11th hour orders of high officials of the I. W. W. called off the march. They are in jail. General Organizer Bidney Terry of the I. W. W. announced that the im- pending general strike would take marine workers out of vessels in every American port, The marine strike is to be a protest, Terry said, against imprisonment for violation of criminal syndicalism laws and against the recent court injunc- tion in California. The strike is to be general, affecting all transport members of our or- ganization as they come into the dif- ferent ports after the strike order is given, Terry sald. Simultaneously the strike will go into effect over east, west and Gulf coasts. The word may come in a short time, he sald. Going into effect at midnight, April 26, the former I. W. W, marine strike had but little effect on the gulf. lle large numbers of men walked off American vessels they were replaced and- agents declared no scheduled sallings were missed. ‘As reports from different points in the country from New York to San I'rancisco told- of the oncoming cru- saders before the climax last night, | tender of support was received by Port Arthur officlals from the Ku- Klux Klan and the American TLegion| and word came from Austin, the state | were capital, that Texas Rangers ready. § Politicians Silent on Smith Campaign Reports French Lick, Ind., though it was reported that the can- didacy of Governor Alfred 'E. Smith of New York for the democratic pres- idential nomination and the insertion of a wet plank in the party platform was the chief topic of discussion at a meeting here yesterday between Thomas Taggart, democratic leader of Indiana; Charles E. Murphy, Tam- many Hall chief, and George E. Bren- nan, Illinois leader, none of the lead- ers would indicate what took place at| the conference. PLANS NEW REPUBLIC. Melilla, Spanish Morocco, July 20.— Ahdel Krim, chief of the Moor rcbels has asked ‘all the other Moorish rev-| olutionary chiefs, according to word received here, to help him organize the “Riff republic.” Abdel Krim pro- poses that the republic will coin its own money under the ‘“National Rif- fian bank.” RES TIRES July 20.—Al-| NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, ETHER STILL EXPLODES IN MASS. LABORATORY Two Holes Are Blown in Walls of Building at Roxbury, Mass.— One Injured. Boston, Mass, July 20.—A 10-gallon still used in the distillation of ether | exploded yesterday afternoon in the State Department of Public Health laboratory, 266 Brookline avenue, Roxbury. John ‘A, Maroney, 18, son of Mr, and Mrs. John Maroney of 40 Julian street, Roxbury, who was at| work near the stlll, was blown against one of the doors and sustained abra- slons of the right elbow, shoulder and knee. After treatment at the Peter Bent Brigham hospital he was able to go home. Maroney is employed as a labora- | tory assistant. Miss Mary Hoar, the other assistant, was further away from the till than Maroney and she | was uninjured. ILewis I. Nurenberg is| in charge of the laboratory. The explosion was so loud that it could be heard several blocks away. Simultaneously with the explosion a flash of flame leaped forth. Two gap- | ing holes were torn in two of the walls and the skylight was blown out. The building is a one-story con- crete structure. The explosion was caused crack in one of the glass jars con- taining ether. The vapor through the crack and when it came in contact with the heat from an elec- tric stove nearby the explosion oc- curred. There were 40 other five-gallon containers in the building at the time but these were unharmed. The fire department rgsponded to a still alarm and extinguished the flames before | they gained any great headway. BLAMES MURDER OF OLD MAN ON ANOTHER PERSON, Suspect Brought Back to Providence From Pacific Coast Protests Innocence. Providence, July 20.—Harold A. | White, former East Greenwich jew- eler, brought back from his flight to the Pacific coast as the accused mur- derer of James A. Sutton, broker- | specualtor, told the police what they | describe as “a cut-to-fit story” of the | slaying at Lincoln Park. | White accuses another man, & man whom he does not know, but admits he was in the two-room home of Sut- ten, the aged recluse, when he was killed, according to the police. White is alleged to have fixed the day of the murder as Saturday, June 2, the day L on which Sutton's body | and this in spite of medical testimony that Sutton had been dead several | days. Police investigators, familiar through work of years with the ac- | tions of accused men, hearing White's , story yesterday, said, “He has talked himself into prison.” White was taken to East Green- ‘\\-ich, arraigned yesterday afternoon | and held without bail on an indict- ment charging murder. Crucibles of gold or silver melt at 1,000 degrees less than platinum, by aj escaped | was found, | WECHANICAL BREAKS FORCE FLIER DOWN (Continued from First Page) ped off determined to make a su- preme effort to cover the stretch of nearly 1,000 miles that separated him | from his goal. | Expressing keen disappointment and noticeably discouraged at the out- come of his second attempt within 10 days to cross the nation in a day, the lieutenant took heart in a moral vic- tory and in the hope that he might | 8till have another chance to fulfill his iiftime ambition. Was The Ofl (‘o(llm' “It was the oil cooler,”” Lieut. Maughan told an Associated Press correspondent as he rested his tired body against a bed post in a hotel | here and told the story of his flight, | “1 thought we had it fixed at Chey- {enne but it became worse as I drove on, Twenty miles out of Rock Springs it began to leak in bucketfuls and I thought it best to quit.”” Lieut. Maughan's plane is at the air mail fleld here today undergoing re- pairg to the ofl tank. Mechanics ex- pect to have it ready for flying within a few hours. After a good night's | rest the aviator plans today to cross the border of his home state, Utah, |and visit his mother at l.ogan, Utah, and his wife at Heber City, Utah. Lieut. Maughan discounted reports | from the east that his failure might | have been due to tampering with the | eil tank before he started on his his | tory making trip. "It was merely a case of the solder- | ed part of the tank coming loose as the result of vibratlon caused by | steam,” he asserted. . Makes Fast Time On the basis of the total elapsed time fromy Mitchell fleld, Lieut. |time from Mitchel field, Lieut. miles at an average speed of 135.6 | miles a=~ hour. For actual flylng time, II was estimated he averaged about 155 miles an hour. | | | ( His Wife's Praise Heber City, Utah, July 20.—Disap- pointment over the failure of her hus- |hand Russell L. Maughan to complete his attempted ocean to ocean, dawn to dusk flight, was almost submerged today in Mrs. Maughan's elation over his safety. “I had hoped this would be Rus- sell’s last desperate chance,” she said “T had wished that it might be suc- cessful. But I am not crestfallen he- cause it falled. He did demonstrate that it was not the lack of human en durance, but mechsnical weakness that has prevented the feat from be- ing accomplished.” Proud of Native Son Logan, Utah, July 20.-~The little city of Logan nestled near the foot of the great Wasatch range in Cache valley today points with pardonable pride to the achievements of Her native son, Russell L. Maughan, He was born in Logan 29 years ago. Russell Maughan is of a family of ten children. He worked his way through Utah agricultural college by working as a “printer's devil.” In France he brought down four enemy planes missing by only one the number required to become an ace. TIRES 2 For 1 Tomorrow Is Your Last Chance To Get 2 Lion Cords for the Price of 1 IN ALL SIZES All first in original wrappers, bearing makers’ names and serial numbers GUARANTEED 12,000 MILES These prices are actually below what it cost the maker to pro- diice these Tires. Other standard makes in proportion. 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