pe
wo leaders In congress, greatly
encouraged by the test vote In
the house, have started a vigorous
eampalgn to compel the major parties
to place in their plat-
forms planks declan
ing for resubmission
of the prohibition
question to the people.
The
the house was to dis-
charge the judiciary
committee from juris-
diction over the Deck-
JAnthicum resolution
for nmendment of the
amend
had been
com-
The test
liberalized
motion hefore
ler) wont!
Eighteenth
ment, which
J. M. Beck. defeated In
mittee by a vote of 14 to 0.
vote was forced under the
rules by 145 petitioners.
On call of the roi,
voted against the moti
and there were 18
ing the Speaker Garner
not vote. The strer
wets
them had expected an
respondingly jubilant, Their
ed 59 tes since the
the
pay
a—
members
1ST for fit,
voting, Follow-
did
the
on,
not
custom,
hown by
was greater en han many of
vere cor.
cause
house
December
Jighteenth
\ Linthic
ck and
the resolution, dec
all but won and
n d was
on
all that
eed one election,
nkes fit
party adopts
a dry platform in J vill
disaster.” He predic it would not
be necessary to walt for the meeting
of the next cor for action to
modify the that
this c« win
ter, as a direct result of the Novem-
ber election, will submit
hibition amendment.
Leaders of the drys,
though
they were undismaved, calling at
tion to the fuct t 't
still far from ha
two-thirds male
Both sides,
have heen hop!
ver would de
was nothing to ind
depart from his 1
convention t
of the Presiden
Mr. Hoover has
lief that the coun
antly dry.
Representative Fred Britten
nois introduced In the house
for repeal of the Jones
law which stiffened til
violation of the Volstea«
court
dry law, beijeving
gress at the session next
the antl-pro
r part,
lared
ten-
admired » vet
admitting wet
ent
Preuss on the billi
enue bill continue
throughout }
ponents of the
form themselves
determined fight
ture of the measure
fn changes, for the
committee agreed to ac
ment omitting certai Is and
press telegrams from the list of articles
upon which a 2.25 pe nt sales tax
is proposed. The 1 iso was
considering amen: 1 xempting
cheap clothing, electri for ir-
rigation projects and mpany
leased wires,
the
ways neans
amend-
Prospects for adoption snles
tax were lessened in mie when
leaders of organized I: ane f the
farmers came out in to it.
William Green, president of the Amer
fean Federation ef Labor, declared
“labor will call on its friends in
gress to defeat that section of the
taxation measure”: and Fred Brenck-
man of the National Grange sald ime
position of the sales tax would meet
“the unqualified disapproval of the
27,000,000 people upon the farms of
this country.”
Should the blll substantially as it
stands get through the house, its sales
tax feature will face strong opposition
in the senate, A group of senators is
ready to Junk it, these including the
men who are cinssed as progressive
Republicans, of the more lib
eral Democrats want a substitute bill
providing for selective sales taxation
and possibly for Increased surtaxes
on incomes above 100.060), The
house surtax is 40 per cent from $100.
000 up.
opposition
con-
Some
WO of the world's famous men de
cided that life was no longer worth
living and so committed
George Eastman, Internationally known
as the developer of the
camera and the pho-
tographic film and
also as one of the
country's greatest
philanthropists, put a
bullet through his
heart at his home Ig
Rochester, N. Y.,
cause he was In 1
health and, as Lis
farewell note sald:
“My work Is done,
Why wait? Mr. East.
man, who founded the
Eastman Kodak company and was
chalrman of Its board, had made a
vast fortune but had given away all
Lut about $20,000,000, His phllanthro-
suicide,
hee
G20. Eastman
pies, estimated at $75,000.000, were
scattered over the world, the recip
ents Including universities and schools
and dental clinics in cities in
this and other He was
seventy-seven years old, a bachelor
and a lover of and art. Mr.
Eastman’s many friends mourned his
death but none was found to eriticise
his decision that it was time for him
to go.
Ivar Kreuger,
Swedish match
many
countries,
music
the
one of
head of great
trust and the
world's most noted in-
the
suicide,
dustrialists,
other notable
For months nu-
merous interests had
been hammered on the
exchanges of
and his losses
supposed to have been
’ heavy though his re-
NL maining fortune wus
~~ very large. He had
4 Just failed to obtal:
a $10,000,060 loan It
New York, wh
had always been able to obtain vast
sums for the ask
Paris and there ended
a revolver, Like Ea
was unmarried.
a sensation in filnanct
cinlly in
wis
his
Europe
were
Ivar Kreuger
ing, so he =aile
his lif
and the
declined sh
Europe,
is companies
Swedish governn
parliament in
sion to declare
of those
raid by creditors,
exchange
\ ANAGERS of
i party are busy m
rangements for i
tion in Chicago, and many of them in
their informal talk |
Washington felt
that Hoov
is would
debts
and
ed for a
was clos
the tepul
iking the ar
the national
conven.
tain
ninees,
ized
hich
‘iliate the
without outrag
urys
of the
rs of
tion
ught it
es (.
4 ff vid
i OL p
George 1.
yeicians
Hart as
also are sl
nouncements,
over the Stadiur
leave it,
take
licans
JR UNOES, rumors, and more rumors,
all proving false, «
Theories swiftly
‘lews leading
nowhere, exploded,
Investigations and negotiations that
have no result. Such has been the
course of the Lindbergh baby kidnap-
ing case up to the this i= writ.
ten. Toward the of the week
the authorities were Inquiring into a
story told by Charles Oliver, a pris.
oner on Welfare island, New York, to
the effect that the plot to steal the
child was hatched In a Jalil, being pro-
posed to him by one William Gleason
of Cliffside, N, J. The latter was
taken into custody and denied every-
thing Oliver sald. An ingenious theory
originated in Philadelphia — that
henchmen of Al Capone stole the baby
for use as a lever to pry that gang
leader out of jail
time
close
pu VON HINDENBURG maln
tained his place as idol of the
German people in peace time as well
as in war In the Presidential
tion he soundly beat his chief rival,
Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazis or
Fascists. But the aged President
failed by one-half of 1 per cent to get
a majority of the total votes cast, so
there must be a run-off election on
April 10. At that time, it Is admitted
by nearly everyone, he will triumph.
As against nearly 19.000,000 votes
for Yon Hindenburg there were about
11,500,000 for Hitler. Ernest Thael-
mann, Communist, polled almost 5,006), .
000: Duesterberg, Nationalist, got
2000000, and Winter, Independent,
111.000 odd. Hitler's vote was so far
ahead of the Nazl vote In the relchs.
tag elections of 1030 that he decided
to remain In the contest,
Toward the close of the week’ the
Prussian government claimed It had
discovered plans for a civil war and
therefore ralded Nazi headquarters
throughout the state,
elec.
ROOSEVELT and
Murray of Oklahoma
the
FF RARRLIN D.
Gov. W. H
were the Democrat
The
were
contenders in
le primaries of North Dal
returns from the rural districts
slow in coming In, but on the basis of
partial appeared certain
that the state's would be
instructed for the New York governor,
However, Alfalfa DBI had captivated
the Imagination of many of the farm-
and was fair contest,
On the Republican side those seek-
ing the preference of the voters were
Dr. Joseph I. France of Maryland and
Jacob 8, Coxey of Ohlo. wus
well In the lead. Mr.
not been entered
SOme votes,
ota.
returns jt
delegation
ers making a
France
Hoover's
but he r.
nnie
had celved
new Congress.
inte
elected a
man to fill out the term of th
Percy E. Quin. He Is IL.
Ellzey, Democrat, superintendent
W CS8On.
Mississippi
il
college at
NTEGOTIATIONS between Japan and
+ China for the withdrawnl of Jap-
anese troops from the Ni { area
reported about to after
engineered by rep.
wnghal
open,
the
States
were
conversations
of the
Great Britain, It
Japanese forces should he v
that the Ch
the ey territory
and
wns understood the
thdrawn
resentatives United
gradually and nese should
not enter
til final
operation wil
un
The
acunted
agreement was reached.
be supervised by a com-
mission wi neutral
Under ¢ agr
ns the it Ma
be consi
She
Sen
ted in its
Swanson
own
own nson was
laring this
pe constructed
alert nt
would not do at n
in time of peace for another power
should not
available to
possibly be considered
of
there would
the bu
Otherwise
for the ge
their reiati
Iders in time
he said
be a ch
agree
Mr
deleg
war,
never
ments fo
ince wern-
on
Swanson
ye
strengths exclaimed,
Other
Swanson's
admiral
ntes supported Senator
argument, and
smilingly
later the
British intimated
that his proposition had been misun-
derstood, and withdrew It,
OSTMASTER GENERAL WwW. Pp
P Brown, In’ a memorandum submit.
ted to the special economy committee
of the house of representatives,
pointed out many ways in which the
cost of the postal service ean be re.
duced, but sald all of them require
legislation
He admitted that the postal service
Is overmanned for the handling of
the present reduced volume of busi
ness due to the depression, He
gested that economics could
achieved by reducing the force, redne-
ing pay, consolidating rural free de.
livery routes and providing govern
ment bulldings for post office stations,
branch post offices and garages which
under the law are now leased.
Such economics, however, sald Me
Brown, would not balance the Post Of
fice department. budget which ean he
effected only by increasing postal
rates also,
Mr. Brown submitted for
congideration™ the proposal
ator W. H. King that rural free de
livery routes be let to the lowes!
bidders, although the postminster gen
eral recorded himself as opposed to
such change because “It would be
likely to result In a substantial hin
palrment of the general excellent serv
fee which 18 now rendered to rural
patrons.”
(©. 1932, Western Newspaper Union.)
sug
he
“careful
of Sen.
"
Orchardists Seek
sight Cost Cuts |
Hope for 1932 Held Out to
Fruit Growers of
Illinois.
An elght-point program designed to
help orchardists cut their production
costs and get at least a
of profit in 1932 is
throughout the state by
service of the Illinois College of Agri-
culture, University of lilinois. Thirty
county are being held to ac
quaint the
points,
They
ing; (2)
(3) gross
pruning
cultivation ; use of more horse
power and tractor power; (6G)
quantity buying of materials; (7) re
valuation of Investment to le
head and (8) repah
than replace machinery.
Many Illinois orchar
which mal
margin
pushed
small
being
the extension
schools
fruit growers with eight
(1) Economical
thinning and
instead of
are:
tree
pruning
wherever
(5)
less
detail
jess
possible; (4)
g8eNn over
expense,
too
them
Marsh,
clallst of the college.
timely thing that orchs
the tree thinning
out unprofitable variet
close,
expensive, fod
horticultural
and
cated trees Is
ng the non-lay
flock
the :
“Trees are
or
veloping lm
better spraying
use of fertilis
more
which
ent time
Bindweed Always One of
Hardest
é
} ' 3
to Extermin
Terracing Made Easy
Terra I ney
that no farmer
top =oll wash away.
¥
ing is such
can
er, Grayson county, Texas.
most of the top strata of =
15-acre field, There
ficult to cross and others
not be Ferti
away before crops had an
Mr Holder
With a steel dit
were
crossed
to utilize It
terrace
mules, he and a young son in f
bullt a series of four terraces tots
nearly a mile In length The dite
no longer interfere, washing
stopped and fertilizer remaing on
field to be utilized by crops. Capper's
Farmer,
has ben
the
Live Stock on Feed
Cattle feeding in the corn belt states
fs 5 per cent less than a year ago, but
8 per cent greater in the states east of
the Mississippl river, Nebraska
20 per cent less cattle on feed than
A year ago, while the feed lots of the
western states show a decrease of 15
per cont,
There were 14 per cent more sheep
on feed In the whole United
than a year ago. The corn belt states
have a marked increase in sheep feed
Ing and the western states nlso show
fa gain. Nebraska Is feeding S0.000
head of sheep this
has
States
year.—Nebraska
Alfalfa
Alfalfa needs more lime than any
other common forage crop. All soils
in the East except those of limestone
origin need lime for alfalfa, and even
limestone soils, such as those in the
Shenandoah valley, are often acid at
the surface and need lime, The form
of Ime makes little difference provid
ed It supplies enough ealelum oxide.
Solls that have not previously been
Himed will usually require at least one
ton of burned lime or its equivalent
to the acre,
Factors Making for
Summer Fallowing.
‘he length of time weed seeds re
main vital depends on a number of fae
tors, 3
wild mustard seed, the kind of soll and
the depth to which the weed seeds ar
plowed, Needs
heavy solls
point of
kind need alr,
gtart germination, i
taing In the top two or
soil,
vital
when they are brought 1
into life and
may be ¢
ger
moi
Below five inches of soll too my
weed seeds mos
for
in Oats
Formaldehy
Treating Sr
ed
ption in
8 Guid
Agricultural Notes
The earlier lime Is apy
er It begins to correct a«
year's clover,
g00n
idity for next
fertilizer between the rows,
> * =»
down the
gd out the va
doesn’t ay } STOW,
.
One way to cut
raising apples is to wes
rieties it
Work
planting, then
layed until the
to cultivate easily. Kill
fore rather than after planting.
. * -
ground
cultivautio can
corn
be de
corn is high
the weeds be
though the bottom of the hog
been
economists believe that
be an Inrge increase in
duction the next three
. "a
Even
cycle has almost reached,
there will nent
pro
years
hog
Yery
during
Inventory values of Hie stock on
farms in the United States are £3.000
000,000 lower than they two
years ago,
were
-. » »
Wyoming ranks third in the p
tion of sheep and wool producing
3,100,000 sheep and 25,000,000 pounds
of wool annually
.
Reforestation will recinim
tility of steep eroded hillshiles, aud
prevent further soll losses. The tim
ber crop is the most syrressful for the
purpose,
wine
the for
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roll-ycur-own smokes that
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