Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 22 July 1926 — Page 3
THURSDDAY, JULY 22, 1926.
HORSESHOE MEET AT STATE FAIR IN SEPTEMBER
Contests for State Championship In Several Classes Are Planned.
This contest will be for the pur pose of determining the state championship team and the individual
championship.
County contests should be promoted and held for the purpose of selecting the two men who will constitute the county team and two alternate to represent each county in the contest. No county can be represented by more than one team. The county contests should be held prior to Sept. 1st, and the names of the winning team and alternates should be sent to the Secretary of the Indiana Board of Agriculture, State House, Indianapolis, not later than Sept. 1st or W. W. Wilson, Muncie, Indiana, who is director in charge of the Horseshoe Pitching contest. The State Fair Horseshoe Pitching meet will start Monday morning, September 6, at 8 o’clock and will be continued each day from 8 to 12 until finished. Each team entered shall pitch each other team one game. The team with the highest percentage of points shall be declared the winner. The following cash prizes will be awarded to the tight teams in the erder they finish in the
tournaments:
Cash Prizes for County Teams First prize —— $75.00 Second prize $65.00
NOTICE TO BIDDERS FOR COUNTY SUPPLIES.
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the County of Delaware, in the State of Indiana, will receive sealed proposals and bids at the office of the Auditor in the court house in the city of Muncie, said county and state, until the hour of 10:00 o’clock A. M., on Saturday the 24th day of July, 1926, for the following supplies for said county: — Coal for the Children’s Home and Clounty Infirmary. Bids for said coal shall be made on the basis of car load lots, prices f. o. b. Muncie, Indiana, for Children's Home, and f. o. b. Selma, Indiana, for County Infirmary, deliv 1 - eries to be made in car load lots as required by the Board. Bids to be made on estimated amount of six hundred (600) tons, more or less. One Road Grader, ten (10) foot blade, for use on county highways. Each bidder on coal is required to file a bond with his bid in the sum of $200.00 conditioned as required by” law; each bidder on road grader shall accompany his bid with certified check for 5% of the amount of his bid guaranteeing the faithful performance of the contract should bis bid be accepted. Proper affidavits of non-collusion shall accompany all bids. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Done this 7th day of July, 1926. JAMIES P. DRAGOO, Auditor Delaware County, Indiana.
July 16.
o NOTICE OF SALE OF DRAINAGE
BONDS.
Third prize $50.00 Fourth prize $40.00 Fifth prize $35.00 Sixth prize ,— $25.00 Seventh prize i $20.00 Eighth prize — $15.00 Individual Contests Men's Class First $25.00 and gold medals Second $15.00 and silver medal Third $10.00 and bronze medal Boys’ Class Any boy under 18 years of age is eligible to this class: First $10.00 and gold medal Second __ $10.00 and silver medal Third $5.00 and bronze medal Men 60 Years Old or Over A gold medal will be awarded the winner in this class. Other special prizes will be offered in this horseshoe pitching
contest.
IOWA C.O.P. NOW FOR BROOKHART
Allegiance Sworn to Ex-Out-cast at State Convention —Coolidge Praised.
Des Moines, la., July 22.—Iowa Republicans in their state convention yesterday, buried all their hatchets, voiced approval of all candidates chosen at the June primary, took to their bosoms Smith W. Brookhart, unseated United States senator, once termed a party outcast, and again their senatorial nominee; demanded equality for agriculture, and commended the national and state administrations. At least two hard fights were waged before the resolutions committee, but in the open all was tranquil, and but or two interruptions the gathering outwardly would have been an old-time love feast. During the afternoon session various Republican leaders were called to the platform for brief addresses while the convention awaited the report of the resolutions commit-
tee.
Is ’Howled Down. iSherin 'F. Myers of Anita, la., sought to gain the floor to speak against Mr. Brookhart, but was bowled down. He got in one thrust at the senatorial nominee, however, with a shouted remark that he wanted to know “how many Democrats are in this convention,’’ and
State of Indiana, Delaware County. Before the Board of Commissioners of the County of Delaware, in the State of Indiana. In the matter of the proceedings for drainage by Mary E. Hedge-
land et al.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, Auditor of Delaware County, Indiana, that pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana of the 1919 session, at pages 775 to 781, inclusive of the Acts of 1919, that at the hour of ten o’clock A. M., on the 14th day of August, 1926, at the office of the Treasurer of Delaware County, Indiana, in the court house in the City of Muncie, in Delaware County, State of Indiana, the Treasurer of Delaware (County, Indiana, will proceed to sell to the highest and best bidder, for cash, at not less than the face value certain drainage bonds of the face or par value of $6,687.20, bearing interest from and after the 8th day of June, 1926, at the rate of six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, on the 15th day of May and the 15th day of November of each.year for a period of five years. Said bonds have been issued in strict compliance Avith the laws of the State of Indiana and pursuant to and with an order of the Board of Commissioners of the County of Delaware, in the State of Indiana, authorizing and ordering the issue and sale of said bonds for the purpose of providing funds for the construction and the costs and expense incident hereto of the drainage re*pbrted in the above entitled proceedings and known as the Mary E. Hedgeland et al. Drainage, which drainage was petitioned for by Mary E. Hedgeland and others in the Delaware Commissioners’ court of the County of Delaware in the State of Indiana, and established by the said Delaware Commissioners’ Court of Indiana, and which proceedings is uoav pending in said court. Said bonds Avill be ten in number, dated June 8, 1926, each being for the sum of $668.72. The first of said bonds will be due and payable on the loth day of May, 1927, and two each year thereafter until all of said bonds shall have been paid. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. JAMES P. DRAGOO, Auditor Delaware (County, Indiana. July 22, 29 & Aug. 5. —o RECEIVER’S SALt
inated Brookhart.'
Dismiss Charges Against Dance Hall
Hartford City, Ind., nuly 20 — Another chapter of the Adelphia Cai'dens Sunday dance controversy came yesterday afternoon when Prosecutor Hugh Maddox appeared in the court of Justice Elisha Pierce and presented a written motion that six charges brought for alleged Sabbath desecration, in connection Avith Sunday night’s dance, be dismissed. The justice sustained the motion and threw the cases out. The prosecutor declared that he
filed the motion because he had] pu blic auction to the highest not been consulted regarding the best (bidder for cash, filing of the charges. He said that 1 . Dated at Muncie, Indiana, he had no deputy prosecutor andmnd day of July, 1926. would not permit any. unauthorized JOHN J. O'NEILL, Receiver person to act as such. ^Silverburg. Bracken & Cray,
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Notice is hereby given that in cause number 4730, Charles Morrow vs. Hoosier ICdutch Company, by virture of an order of the Delaware Superior Court, the undersigned, receiver in said cause, Avill sell to the highest and best bidder all the property, being the stock, fixtures, equipment, machinery,
ORGANIZE WORLD MOVEMENT FOR AID OF HISTORY
American Association Announces Program to Assist
Scholars in Research.
New York.—Organization of a worldwide association of scholars to advance the aims of history was announced Sunday by the American Historical association. Provisional headquarters of the new association will be established in Washington, and the secretaries will function through the Institute of Intellectual Cooperation in Paris. A permanent international committee of historical sciences, with Prof. M. Koht of the University of Oslio, Norway, as president, has been formed, and arrangements made for an international congress. Learned societies of nineteen nations, including Gemany, Russia and Austaria, as well as the principal allied countries, are backing the committee. The formation of the international committee is the outgrowth of a movement started in 1923 by the American delegates to a conference of historians in Brussels. The Laura iSpeilman 'Roekfeller memorial has contributed $25,000 to the committee for its work, and means by which it may be permanently financed are being considered by its treasurer, Waldo G. Leland, executive secretary of the American Council of Learned Societies. GIVESORDERFOR TAKING GUARD TO SUIMR CAMPS Gen. Kershner Says the State Troops Will Be Moved Aug. 1 and 8; Local Units Go.
Indianapolis, July 22.—The formal order providing for the movement of troops of the Indiana National Guard to Camp Knox, Kentucky, and to Wright field, Fairfield, O., was issued Tuesday by William H. Kershner, adjutant general of the state. All National Guard troops in the state, except the 113th observation squadron, will leave their home stations on Aug. 8 and remain in camp for two weeks. The air squadron will leave Aug. 1 and remain until Aug. 15. In general, movement of the troops will be by special trains containing troops from one or more cities. Troops from Muncie, Ehvood and Kokomo Avill come to Indianapolis on a special train which will start at Muncie and leave Indianapolis Avith other troops. Portland, Tipton and Noblesville members will go to Indianapolis together and Martinsville, Spencer and Bloomington troops will join with those from Salem and New Albany going by way of New
Albany.
o 65 NEW STATIONS PREPARE FOR AIR Radio Stampede Impends As Hoover’s Control Is Curtailed.
that “they hre the fellows tha nom- tools, supplies, office equipment,
real estate and any and all property of any and every character making up the assets of said • Hoosier Clutch Company, except the accounts and bills receivable, as i'ol-
Ioavs :
He will offer for sale and receive private bids for such property either in whole or in bulk, at his office in the Wysor Building, in the City of Muncie, Indiana, at any time and at all times between this date and 10:00 o’clock A. M. and the 14th day of August, 1926, and if said property is not sold by such method, then on the 14th day of August, 1926, at 10:00 o’clock A. M. All of said assets 'will be sold at the plant of the said Hoosier Clutch Company located at the corner of South Elliott Street and the Nickel Plate Railroad in the City of Muncie either in whdle or in parcels at
and
Washington, July 22.—Sixty-five new broadcasting stations, in all parts of the country, are preparing to invade the already overcrowded “radio ah'” channels, stripped of all policing by the breakdown of Federal regulation, a Commerce Department survey revealed yes-
terday.
This impending wholesale stampede is the first offensive by unlicensed stations since Attorney
General tary of
Describes Blast At Navy Arsenal New York, July 22.—A rear-ad-miral and three navy captains rose from their judicial chairs Wednesday as a hospital orderly pushed a wheelchair into a rpom at the Brooklyn naval hospital where the court of inquiry was hearing testimony on the Lake Denmark naval ammunition depot disaster. In the wheelchair was a man, his head swathed in bandages, a large gauze patch over his right eye, powder pocks on his seared face, forehead and temple and a long burn on the left side of his face from the cheek bone to the corner of his mouth. He was Captain Otto C. Downing, commander of the Lake Denmark arsenal, who had come to tell the court that the arsenal had been unsafe and that it had carried ammunition far in excess of the amount permitted by the New Jersey law. o — FRANCE LOOKS TO FORMER PREMIER FOR NEW CABINET Radical Chief Reversed as Deputies Vote Down His Regime jBy Ballot. Paris, July 22—President Doumergue, last night, asked M. Poincare to form a new ministry. Poincare accepted in principle and will begin his consultations this morn-
ing.
Paris, July 22.—The Herriot Cabinet was defeated last night, 290 1 to 237, in the (Chamber of Deputies after barely two clays’ existence. Outside, while the vote was in progress, police reserves curbed a crowd of several • thousand Parisians, who hooted the premier and members of his government. The temper of the crowd was described as “ugly” and it was seen as typifying the mounting apprehension
of the country at large.
The Herriot Cabinet was formed to succeed the tenth ministry of Aristdie Briand and to rehabilitate the financial position of 'France. It lasted just a few houi-s longer than the Francois-Marsal ministry which in 1924 was formed to present the case of the 'President of the republic, Alexandre iMillerand, to Parliament, after M. Herriot had refused to receive a mission to form a Cab-
inet at his hands.
Refer To Other Regime. Significant references to the historic event of M. Millerand’s de parture from Elysee palace /where he was succeeded by iM. Doumergue were made yesterday when the man who played an aggressive part in this event fell with a disastrous crash from the pedestal to which the elections of 1924 had lifted him. ASSERTADVliRS MADE ERROR IN SHUMAKER CASE
BLUFFTON SUPPLY POINT FOR MILK TO BOOTLEG RING
Agent Tells of Graft Funds Paid In New York; Big Profits Made.-.
New York, July 21.—Western dairymen could ipay 2y s cents graft on a quart of cream and still sell it at a profit in New York city in competition with nearby dairies, it was testified yesterday in. General Sessions court. r Fhe story was told by Samuel Doner of Dewart, Pa., representative of Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana dairies, at the trial of William H. Kehoe, former assistant corporation counsel, charged with the operations of an alleged bootleg milk ring through whose operations cream and milk prohibited by city ordinance was sold to New Yorkers. Doner, a prosecution witness, identified checks totaling $22,900, which he had paid to Kehoe for the illegal admission of cream. The checks Doner said, were issued weekly at the rate of $1 graft on each forty-quart can . of illegal cream Kehoe and other members of the alleged bootleg milk ring permitted him to sell in the metropolitan district. He testified that he had offered to pay $2 for the admission of other cans of similar
capacity.
Arranged Deal. In the summer of 1925,*while he was at Long Beach with his family, Doner testified, Frederick W. Kuntzman, a former inspector for the health department, had come to see him and took him to the home of Kehoe, where he met Thomas J. Clougher, then secretary to Dr. Frederick J. Monaghan, then health commissioner, and they talked oyer the scarcity of cream and Doner offer to pay $2 a can to bring in cream from Waterloo, Ohio. A load of milk seized by inspectors, and which was released after Kehoe had “arranged things,” afterwards was sold in Newark, N. J., Doner testified, although Ole Salthe, former chief of the bureau of foods and drugs had written to New Jersey officials warning them the cream was “no good.” Doner said he represented dairies in Chilton, Racine, Jefferson, Janesville, Fond du Lac, Downing, Lake Mills, Wakefield and Lodi, Wis., and Waterloo, O.; Bluffton, Ind., and Homer, Mich. o
Attys. for Anti-Saloon League Head Declares Report Is Based Upon Old Rule.
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The outcome of the present An-glo-American discussions being held at London will more than like* ly be a bid for world-wide co-oper-ation of foreign governments in enforcement of prohibition in the United States, is plans are formed as anticipated in Washington.
Charles Evans Hughes, former secretary of state, now on a tour throughout Europe, arrived in Venice, Italy, Monday evening.
Attorneys.
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When PJlsie Janis returned to America on the liner Paris and when she landed in New York she declared to the custom officials, that she had dutiable articles just purchased in Europe not to exceed a value of $10Q. However the custom officials seized her jewels, which Elsie termed as trinkets but which the officials say are worth, at least $50,000.
Indianapolis, July 22.—Declaring an error in the recent majority report of a committee of six friends of the court in the case of Edward S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, charged with contempt of the Supreme court, attorneys for Shumaker filed an answer yesterday. They assert the committee’s report is based upon the old English common law rule that “the King can do no wrong,” assert further that Shumaker did not falsify in his annual statement and that a finding of contempt would violate his constitutional rights. In addition to this a supplemental response was filed and with these a motion was made
Sargent ruled that Secre-1 that Shumaker he discharged. Commerce Hoover lacks j ‘‘The crux of the error of the ma-
power to refuse licenses or regu- jority committee brief is that it is late wave lengths aud power. Phased upon the old abandoned, dis-
The results surprised even the
department’s officials, who estimated a few days ago that not more than ten stations were in a position to avail themselves of the new “freedom of the air.” All the stations reported are either ready to operate or are actually under construction. The construction work has j been be gun, in most cases, since Hoover was told he was powerless to avert the “chaos” he had long predicted. The department will refuse licenses. in all cases until the tions ar ready .to “go on the air.” it was said. After that all bars
are down.
—o— It is very interesting to know that the first orange trees in California were brought from Spain by Franciscan monks in 1769 and planted in mission grounds. This marked the beginning of a citrus industry in California which last year approached a turnover of
$100,000,000.
(Secretary of Commerce .Hoover in a speech delivered at Minneapolis Tuesday night made the statement that immediate developcment of the projected 12,000 mile system of inland waterways, linking the northwest with the Gulf and the Great Lakes region with the eastern seaboard, is. vital to American agriculture ami the outstanding opportunity confronting the nation.
FARMERS OPEN VIGOROUS FIGHT FOR FARM RELIEF
Committee At Iowa Meeting
Reports Expense of Producing Various Grains.
carded and repudiated common law rule that originated before there were any such guaranties as constitutional guaranties of the freedom of the press and of speech; a doctrine that has been repudiated by the (Supreme court of this state and the courts of last resort of all of the states of the Union except six or seven states,’ the answer de-
clares.
iShumaker, cited several weeks ago on information filed by Arthur Gilliom, attorney general, for alleged contemiptous statements in the annual reports of the Indiana AntiSaloon League, in the opinion of five of the six attorneys selected to act as friends of the court, is guilty. The attorneys asserted further that Ethan A. Miles and Jesse E'. Marlin, attorneys for the league who also were charged by Gilliom with contempt purged themselves of any such remarks against the court o There may he a lot of wisdom in this procedure on the part of Germany. The government of Germany is planning to vote $50,000,SOO for state works to provide employment for 1,300,000 men, who would otherwise be out of employment. This plan is considered more economical than passing further credits for state doles to. the unemployed. More credits will bo voted if necessary to carry out the vast program for state railroads, postpffices, telegraph and telephone cable and also for a canal in Lower Silesia.
Des Moines, la., July 21.—The third tight to obtain for agriculture economic equality with other groups in America, was launched here yesterday when the corn belt committee, American Council of Agriculture and the committee of twenty-two, without a dissenting voice laid plans for a campaign which will reach its climax before the next Congress. The corn belt committee also received a report of its cost finding committee which fixed the actual cost of production of a bushel of corn in Iowa, with an allowance for a fair profit, at $1.42. The cost was not mentioned in the resolutions, however, and was not set up as the mark to be attained in the continued effort to obtain congressional relief for agriculture. The cost finding committee’s report also set forth that in Illinois the expense of producing corn, with a fair profit of 5 per cent included, is $1.43; in Nebraska, $1.40; Minnesota, $1.41, and in North Dakota and Wisconin, $1.42. Other Costs Listed. Other costs of production in Iowa allowing the same fair margin of profit, were reported as: Oats, 79 cents; wheat, $2.49; hay, $21.44; hogs, $16.32 veal, $17.82; wool, 65 cents; lambs, $20.45; chickens, 28 cents; butter fat, 98 cents, and eggs 61 cents. An average 160-acre farm was the area upon which the compilation was based, and it was capitalized at $148 an acre, with an average interest of 5 per cent, or $1,184. Other expenses figured included: Depreciation on a $2,250 dwelling $90; depreciation on $3,690 worth of other buildings, $184; depreciation on fences, $83; depreciation and interest upon $1,973.90 worth of machinery, $335.'56; farmer’s salary, $1,800; hired help, $390; fertilizer, $101.60, and automobile depreciation and interest, $121.50, only 75 per cent of the motor car expense being charged to the farm. • The total income necessary for the 5, per cent fair return, as outlined is $5,601.41, against what was said to be a present income of $2,-
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The Philippine legislature appears to be preparing to bargain vith the United States regarding freedom and rubber. A group of native law makers is now considering favorably a bill to amend the Philippine land laws to allow Americans to hold as much laud as they need to grow rubber, the law to take effect the day the United Slates go vc nj mo at grunts Hie Philippines complete and absolute'
Every year wheat in storage on farms is damaged more or less from weevil attacks. T#o often the farmer fails to recognize the trouble until after considerable loss has resulted and then further damage is avoided only by fumigating with carbon bisulphide. If a few precautions are taken now, before the new grain is put away, this loss thay be appreciably minimized, according to Professor J. J. Davis, head of the Entomology Department of the Purdue University Agricultural experiment station. The precautions which are important now include cleaning of the bins of all traces of old grain as long as possible before threshing, by threshing as soon after harvest as possible, and proper storage. It is desirable to dispose of ail grain before the first of June. Before storing new grain, thoroughly clean bins and adjacent premises. Remove and feed (otherwise dispose of waste grain and spray the cracks where eld grain may be lodged with kerosene or similar material. Grain bags should also be cleaned. Grain held from year to year increases damage from weevils. It is always desirable to build granarKs apart and away from the barn, where possible, and according to plans which will minimize the chances of weevil infestation and enable proper fumigation. After the grain is in the bin, it would be examined occasionally and if weevils are found, the grain should be moved or transferred if possible. It this cannot be done and the bin is tight, fumigation with carbon bisulphide can be employed. Dii’ections for fumigating with carbon bisulphide can be obtained by addressing the Department of Entomology, Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station at Lafayette,
Indiana.
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Inscriptions Tell of Trojan War
(Chicago.—Much interest has been aroused in educational circles by Tof. James H. Breasted’s statement in a lecture that inscriptions lately uncovered by an exploration into the Hittite country establish the actuality of the Trojan war. The expedition, recently launched in Asia iMinor, is delving into the civilization that antedated Assyria and Babylon. From Egyptian sources and evidence in Hebrew scripture, antiquarians have long known that the Hittites were a powerful nation settled in (Syria, or what is now southern Armenia. Egyptian records describes battles of the Pharoahs with the Hittites as
early as 1800 B. C.
They are referred to frequently in scripture as a warlike race and enemy of the invading Jews. Ancient Troy was to the v/est of the Hittites. While excavations have confirmed the theory that a city once stood on the site selected as that, of Troy, the Homeric classics have been considered by critics works of imagination. While Prof. Breasted did rot affirm that as Homer says, the Olympian gods were interested in the battle, he said the inscription showed a war had been fought beween the Trojans and Greeks about the 1 ime of the Homeric age. prepaSagaFnst GRAINWEEYILS Much Wheat Damaged Every Year Due To Lack of
Proper Care.
ALFALFA FOR HOGS REDUCES COSTS
Crop Has Advantage of Being Ready In Spring and Continues Until Fall.
SARGENT ORDERS M’CRAY INQUIRY
Attorney General Says He Acted On Suggestion of Pres. Coolidge. Washington, July 21.—Attorney General Sargent admitted yesterday that it was upon his request that another exaihinatL-n was made of Warren T. McCray in the Atlantic Federal prison last Saturday. It is known, too, that the attorney general acted upon a direct suggestion from the President. Representative Will R. Wood, with a heart interest in the McCray case, has repeatedly urged upon the President that he act before Mr. McCray suffers a breakdown from which he might not recover. It was Wood’s appeal which resulted in the latest examination of the sick man. The report from the most recent physical examination has not yet reached the Department of Justice. When it does come, it will be forwarded to the President. The President has shown such caution in the matter that friends of the oi Governor ar j not greatP’ oncc.urjif,ed that there will be an early action. It was about two and one-half years ago that Governor McCray was rushed away to Atlanta to begin upon the longest sentence ever given in the Indiana Federal court.
ORMISTON REFUSES TO GIVE TESTIMONY Los Angeles, July 21.—Sufficient evidence has not yet been found to warrant an indictment in the alleged kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, the county grand jury declared in a report to Superior Judge Keetch late yesterday. The report reads;' “The grand jmy has had presented to it for consideration the evidence in the alleged kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPhcaryon and finds there is insufficient evidence to warrant an indieimeut.”
Alfalfa is the best permanent pasture crop for hogs where conditions ax*e favorable for its growth. It not only has a higher feeding value than clover or blue grass but remains green amd succulent during the hot ; summer months when blue grass has dried up and clover is often hard and dry. Alfalfa is ready vor pasturing early In the spring and continues until late in the fall. It has the advantage of lasting through a number pf seasons while clover and rape must be reseeded. When alfalfa is not pastured heavily one or two light crops of hay can be cut during the season. This is good practice in pasturing because heavy grazing tends to kill out the stand. Alfalfa is a suitable pasture crop for all classes of hogs but is especially valuable for brood sows and young pigs. Its high protein and lime content makes it valuable for growth and milk production. A good stand of alfalfa will graze 18 to 20 full fed hogs per acre while the number will be reduced to six or seven when the hogs are being grown on a half feed of grain. Under average conditions four or five good sows and their litters can be pastured on an acre of alfalfa. Although alfalfa ranks at the top of the pasture crops as a supplement to corn for hogs it is usually advisable to add tankage or some other high protein concentrate to the ration, especially for young growing pigs, says C. M. Vestal qf the Agricutlural Experiment Station, Purdue. Recent tests at the Purdue Experiment Station show that spring pigs fed for market on alfalfa pasture made more rapid gains and saved more corn and tankage than those on clover. In two trials the pigs on alfalfa gained and average of 1.76 pounds daily and required 331 pounds of corn and 26 pounds of tankage per 100 pounds gain, while on clover the average daily gain was 1.68 pounds, with a feed requirement of 336 pounds of corn and 30 pounds of tankage per 100 pounds gain. A good pasture crop is essential for the most economical pork production. In fact it is so important that it often makes the difference between profit and loss in the bus
iness.
More farmers in Indiana should solve their pasture problems by sowing a small acreage to alfalfa to supplement their clover and other pastures. In many sections alfalfa should be the principal pas ture crop for hogs. o Historians Turn To Experts Who Isolated Vitamin
Writes Geology of Indiana Wells
A new publication on “The Geology of the Deep Wells of Indiana” by Dr. W. N. Logan, state geologist, containing 540 pages, has just been published, according to an announcement by the state department of conservation. The report contains, information' about every county in the state, including about fifteen hundred well “logs,” many of which are published for the first time. It also contains a revised geological time scale and a geological map of the state. “No industry is more dependent upon science than is the petroleum industry upon the science of geology” says Dr. Logan. “The petroleum and natural gas industry of Indiana is of so much importance to the industrial development of the state that it should be given every aid which this science can supply for the solution of its problems. Enormous sums of money have been expended and are still being expended in Indiana in ‘wildcat’ drilling and the greater part of this form of prospecting is being indulged in without reference to the presence or absence of geological conditions favorable to the accumulation of oil and gas. Very naturally such prospecting leads to enormous losses and few gains.”
Tailless Airplane Has Been Invented
LONDON—A tailless airplane, whose inventor went for inspiration to the prehistoric giant lizard, the pterodactyl, and the new verticallyrising helicopter invented by the Spaniard, De la Cierva, will be the principal features of interest at the annual display of the royal air forces at Hendon, in the suburbs of London, Saturday. The tailless plane is the invention of Captain G. T. R. Hill. It is a monoplane and its single pair of wings, slanting back like the leathery wings of the pterodactyl, are attached to a short body that carries pilot, passengers and freight. The inventor hopes his plane will he practically fool proof. It is designed to eliminate accidents now occuring constantly, when pilots momentarily lose control. Cierva’s helicopter, officially called the auto-giro, has been successfully tried and adopted by the air ministry. Cierva, himself, will fly in the first auto-giro to be built in England. It is a wingless machine with revolving pliable fans overhead.
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT GETS NEW TYPE OF CAR
WASHINGTON—Now that vitamins have assumed so much importance in relation to human diet and nutrition, medical historians are beginning to concern themselves with the proper assignment of credit for original investigations in this field, says Hygeia, a publication of the American Medical Association. An excellent analysis of the progress of these discoveries has been made by Dr. Casimir 'Funk of the State school of hygiene in Warsaw, Poland, says the writer, to whom many historians are willing to give the major share of credit. Dr. Funk points out that the major portion of the early investigation was done in 1911-12, but that in 1919 many observers began to credit Sir Frederick G. Hopkins of Cambridge university with the original discovery. Prof. Funk has analyzed the available data and shows that the early experiments of Hopkins in 1906. were convincing of the fact that animals can not live on a mixture of proteins, fats, cailbohydrates and inorganic salts alone; but that there must be available some other dietetic factors which at that time were not determined.
WASIIINGT (J N—A motor car that can travel anywhere a horse can go and can cover a plowed field or a stretch of soft desert sand better than a horse or man afoot, has been built for the ordinance department, according to an announcement by the War Department. The first demonstration of the new car was held May 24, when Secretary of War Davis watched it climb up and down the steps in front of the State, War and Navy
building.
'Three of these cars will be delivered to the 1st cavalry division for work on the Mexican border and one to the field artillery at Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
PURDUE U. TRIES NEW HARVESTER-THRESHER
Lafayette, Ind., July 17—What is thought to be the first combined harvester-thresher ever used in Indiana, was tried Wednesday, on the Purdue university experimental live stock farm near here before local farmers, university men and implement dealers. The outfit will be used on the remainder of the wheat crop, oats, sweet clover seed and soy beans on the unversity farm. Soy bean harvesting demonstrations with the machine have been arranged for several farms over the state.
Billion Paper Bills Worn Out In Year
WASHINGTON—Twelve bund tons of paper currency are ma factured annftally by the Uni States government to supply money needs of the country. Americans wear out their mo faster than their shoes, accord to experts who said that dur the past twelve months more U a billion new bills were put i circulation. J he United States bureau standai'ds, in co-operation with treasury and bureau of efficiei have started a study to find me of extending the life of pa money,” said a statement issuei the Department of Commerce “The life of a $1 bill, which is greater part of our paper currei has been continually decreasing the past years until in 1924 it a’ aged six months. Formerly its was around twenty months.” The use of paper currency increased three-fold in the last teen years. The country wore 1,009,000,000 paper bills last y weighing 1,200 tons. Officials said that the chief < tributing factors to the decreas life of paper currency are due its rapidity of circulation and increasing carelessness in hand!
A corp of army engineers under orders from the last Congress, are now at work on a report to the next 'Congress with a view to justifying the expenditure of practically $950,000,000 for an all-Amer-ican canal connecting the great lakes with the Atlantic ocean via the Erie canal across New York state.
The town of Tennyson, ten miles east of Boonville, Indiana, was almost completely destroyed by fire of undetermined origin, which wiped out two business blocks and then spread to the residential sections, in which many homes were destroyed. Twenty-three buildinsA were leveled and it was quite for- * tunate that no lives were lost.
Reports from Belgrade insis that Bulgaria is on the verge of : revolution. The Vienna newspai ers have not been able to obtai answers to telegraphic inquirie sent to their correspondents. According to officials of Indian university, the health of the pet Pie of Indiana generally is seriom ly threatened, because in the stat there is only one physician to ever 720 people. Prof. L. D. Edie u the bureau of business research c the school of commerce and f nance at the university, has jus completed a survey which show that Indiana has only 4,251 practii ing physicians and that 49 per cen of the number are-more than 5 years of age. The survey also r< veals the startling fact that ther are 750 fewer practicing physician in Indiana now than there was te years ago.