Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1936 — Page 3
SAYS WEATHER BUREAU CHIEF:
WEST HARD HIT BY DROUGHT 8
No Fundamental Change in Conditions, Federal Expert Declares.
BY J. B. KINCER Chief of the Division of Climate and Crop Weather, W. 8. Weather Bureau. { (Copyright, 1936, by Science Service)
It has been said that the usual weather is unusual; and the only trouble with our recent weather is that it has been more unusual than it usually is unusual. The unusual happenings in
recent years include these:
1. Extremely high summer temperatures.
. 2. Many warm winters, to be followed by an extremely severe one in 1935-1936. | 3. Recent, unprecedented floods in the East.
4. Disastrous tornadoes in the South.
5. Two| drought years, 1930 and 1934, establishing new records for dryness over large areas, both of which were of tremendous national significance. Because (of these things, many people have grown alarmed and express fear for the future.
Going Through Dry Phase
We have weather records for more than 5000 different localities in the United States, but unfortunately a very few re for periods as long as
100 years. Our longest records indicate that [there has been no permanent change in climate. Rather, we are going through a dry phase of our normal climate. Climate is the general run, or sum total, of weather, and that sum total does not seem to be undergoing any fundamental changes. Weather is the phase of climate that we experience from day to day, from week to week, or even year to year. Therefore, as every one knows from reading the Weather Bureau forecasts, as publishd in every daily newspaper in we country, weather varies, often markedly, from day to day, due to vast changes in air mass movements, When the run of weather conforms to the general climate of a region, that is, when it is ahout normal, it receives very little attention or discussion. But when it varies greatly from the normal in heat, cold, destructive (floods, drought, and the like, it at ofice becomes of popular interest, and in some cases of national concern.
Weather Trends
Now, we readily observe that different weather phases—warm, then cool; a and rainy; then sunny and dry—fgllow one another at intervals usually counted in days or weeks: that is, at short iniervals. - This we eal) weather trends, There are climatic ‘trends of a similar nature, the yardstick being years instead of days. In recent years, we have been going through a dry, warm phase of climate and unusually frequent drought is the result. 4 These up and down trends in ‘rainfall make, when the record is smoothed, a wave-like pattern, “but the length of the periods appears to be too irregular to justify a definite long- -range forecast as to what will happen in the future. If records were available for a thousand years instead of from 50 to 100, we possibly comld discover a definite law of succession.
Bible Has Reference
The Bible, in the story of Joseph and the dreams of Pharaoh, gives-us the first historical reference to this important characteristic of rainfall—the tendency of a number of successive years having comparatively heavy rains to be followed by a series of harmfully dry years, especially in [regions with normally scanty moisture. In the | United States, local droughts may be expected practically every year, but they are seldom of nation-wide importance. Prior to 1934, three wide-spread droughts are worthy of mention as seriously affecting production of staple farm crops in the United States. These droughts of national importance occurred in 1894, 1901, and 1930. The fourth and latest, in 1934, broke all records. !
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OFFICIAL WEATHER
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Doubly Cruel to Grain and Stock Farmers, Review ‘of Trend Shows.
By Beience Service
WASHINGTON, July 6.— Drought .is doubly cruel to grain farmers and stockmen of Midwest and Northwest, because this year began with fair promises of returning abundance. During the past few years, dry fields had to be seeded in a spirit of grim chance-taking. But this spring it was different. The earth was moist at plantingtime, and everything looked good. The young wheat sprouted bravely and the hopes of the farmers went up with the green blades.
And now— Even while the wheat grew so hopefully, betrayal was at hand. From the first of March onward, the rains began to fail. At first the shortage was not severe; spring wheat was sown, and winter wheat took its fresh start, from the reserves of moisture in the soil. But the showers became even fewer and scantier, and presently the reserve moisture in the soil, laid by for rainless days, was all gone. The crop was bankrupt. And Harry Hopkins had to buy a ticket to St. Paul, to face anew the menace of want on the Front of the Northwest.
Early Promise Bright.
The promise of the early year was so fair that it is hard to believe in the reality of the disaster that has been brought to a sudden head by a few weeks’ of furnace-hot weather.
ended, with sweeping rains in September of that year, precipitation continued nearly normal or even above normal for the whole afflicted wheat region, excepting only the blighted Dust Bowl at the southern end of the Great Plains. The winter of 1935 especially set out to be helpful. True, it was very cold and full, of howling blizzards, but by the same token it brought plenty of snow. The northern Great Plains had a better snow cover than they had had for years. A summary study by the United States Weather Bureau showed that the period of nearly-normal to supernormal moisture in the Northwest lasted for 18 months; from September of 1934 until the late winter of 1936. Then the snow thawed, the farmers eagerly worked the unwontedly moist soil—and the drouth began to creep up on them, betraying their optimism again. Situation Is Terrible
The situation in the Northwestern wheat country is the really terrible thing, though it may presently find itself competing for front-page notice with a second center of drouth that has been developing along with it, centering over Kentucky and covering the rest of the middle Ohio basin. The Southeast, robbed of its market vegetable crop by an early drouth, has been relieved by recent rains, so that things now look more hopeful for the later crops—cotton, grain and pastures. The one-time Dust Bowl, converted into a Mud Bowl by torrential rains some weeks ago, is out of the drouth picture for the present—though it may come back into it again. The country’s greatest single crop, corn, is not as yet in such severe danger, at least in the parts of the Corn Belt that were covered with last winter's mountainous snowbanks. Those banks of snow held more wealth than many pretentious banks of brick in the towns, for they replenished the depleted subsoil moisture and got the crop off to a very good start, though somewhat belated. The drouth has been over the Corn Belt, too; but corn is a deep-rooted crop, and now has its feeders well down into the ground. So unless the heat becomes even worse than that of the purgatorial summer of 1934, the corn will come through.
DROUGHT PREDICTED IN SOUTHERN STATES
Tennessee, Kentucky to Be Affected, Observers Believe.
By Science Service = WASHINGTON, July 6.—Waich Tennessee and Kentucky for the next big drought-distress story, is the word of the weather-wise who have been for some time watching a dry area centered in those two usually well-watered states. Since the end of April they have received only about a quarter of their normal quota of rain, and unless rain comes soon and abundantly there is going to be bad time there. Fortunately the winter wheat crop is “over the hump,” though the harvest is coming in rather shortstrawed and not up to the mark in weight of grain. But pastures are in bad shape, so that sale or moving
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oo | of livestock is imperative in some
sections. Clover and lespedeza are dying of drought, which means short allowance of hay. Corn is in unsatisfactory shape, for much of it had to be planted late, and in soil too dry to permit good germination. Tobacco, important in both states, is extremely disappointing.
MORGAN IMPROVING, EMPLOYES REPORT
Bishop Offers Prayer for Health of | W Wealthy Banker. By United Press GLEN COVE, N. Y., July 6—Employes at the estate of J. P. Morgan
After the terrible drouth of 1934-
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A member of the Indiafapolis fire department for 20 years, Cecil Q. Richardson (above), 43, of 261 N. Addison-st, was Killed early yesterday in a traffic accident. His son, Robert Lincoln Bichardson, also was killed.” Mr. Richardson was appointed to the department July 2, 1916.
4 KILLED HERE; 40 ARE INJURED
Fireman, Son Are Victims When Car Rams Into Utility Pole.
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Miss Horner and Fosso were riding in the coupe. The four deaths brought the traffic toll in Marion County this year to 85. George Hoover, 75, of Eagle Village, was arrested early today in. connection with the hit-run accident last night in which three cars were wrecked and three persons injured at Keystone-av and 52d-st. Three Negroes riding with Fowler Hickman, 31, Negro, 2745 N. Oxfordst, were cut, when. the hit-run car sideswiped a car driven by Thomas Spencer, 22, of 1833 Ingram-st, which in turn smashed into the Hickman auto. The Hickman car then struck the parked auto of Earl E. Kinzie, 48, of 411 E. St. Joseph-st.
15, of 2160 S. East-st. He is at City Hospital with a bandage over his eyes, and physicians declined to bpredict whether he will ever see again. A toy cannon, home-made for the celebration, exploded at the home of Edward Muffler, a neighbor, 2129 S. East-st, yesterday. The explosion burst full in young O’Connell’s face.
Four Others Hurt
Four other persons were slightly injured in the accident. They were treated for tetanus and released. They were Margaret. O'Connell, 13-year-old sister of the seriously injured boy; Muffler, the host; Robert Richter, 10, and his brother, Frederick, 12, of 2126 Singleton-st. Bernard Lynch, fire prevention chief, said that he can not remember any other year when firecrackers caused as many as 53 fires. The drought-parched grass ignited readily from the crackers, creating an unusual hazard. Among others who received minor injuries from pyrotechnics and were treated at the hospitals of the city were Mary Jane Dothridge, 10, of 140 W. 19th-st; Sam Bird, 11, of 2432 N. Arsenal-av; Dorothy Gilley, 12, 'of 241 S. Temple-av; Barbara Cox, 10, of 234 N. Traub-av; Lois Gray, 25, Negro, 817 Kinney-st.
Dirigible Sets Record By United Press FRANKFORT, Germany, July 6. —The dirigible Hindenburg landed here at 1:20 a. m. today, establishing a record of 45 hours and 36 minutes for the homeward flight from the United States Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J.
Worst hurt was Robert O'Connell, |
U.S. ACCIDENTS
118 DROWNINGS
Only Seven Lose Lives in Fireworks Mishaps, Reports Show.
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Guardsmen were called to patrol the streets of the town of 1000 residents to prevent looting. Another fire, in the little hamlet of Oyens, four miles from Remsen, caused $75,000 damage. Its oO was not known. In Wayne, ch.,, a passenger train ~ crashed through an open switch, smashed into a freight train, and killed the engineer. A man who
| nad been “riding the rods” of the
train was electrocuted when he stepped on a charged wire near the wreck. ; One Killed by Roller Coaster
One person was killed®in a roller coaster accident in Toledo, O., another died when he fell from a “giant racer” at a Salt Lake City (Utah) amusement park. Three persons died in airplane crashes in California, Illinois and Nebraska. Scores of persons attending a convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses, religious organization, in Manchester, N. H., were reported stricken with ptomaine poisoning. ‘ Among the drowning victims was a South Carolina youth struck by lightning while he was swimming. Eight thousand persons saw . a Milwaukee (Wis.) motorcycle racer killed during a race, and 4000 saw an automobile racer killed in Iowa. Four men drowned when their speeding automobile slipped from a Florida Keys highway into an eightfoot canal and trapped its occupants. Four other motorists died when their automobile careened across a highway into a tree near De Kalb, I.
STATE HOLIDAY TOLL IS PLAGED AT 25
Auto Accidents Take Lives of 18 in Indiana.
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tracks at Evansville. His arms had been severed and he apparently had bled to death. Charles Blackwell, 19, New Haven, a student at St. Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, was killed, and Robert Federspiel, 21, also of New Haven, was injured critically when their automobile ran into a barricade on Road 24 east of Fort Wayne and crashed into a bridge abutment. Clarence D. Miller Jr., 13, drowned in a pond of an old strip mine near Dugger.
Child Thrown From Horse Injuries suffered when he was thrown from a horse and kicked in the face were fatal to Lowell Frank-
lin Lantz, 6, of Monticello. John C. Hornung, 58, Greensburg, died from | injuries suffered in an automobile accident near Greensburg. Paul Walker, 25, Greentown, died from injuries suffered when his motorcycle was struck by an automobile. Archie Crowell, 25, was killed and his wife, Wilma, was injured seriously when their automobile was struck by a train at Columbia City. Injuries suffered in an automobile accident- near Carbon were fatal to Arthur Walton, 35, Carbon. Dwight F. Morgan Jr. 6-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight F. Morgan, died in Methodist Hospital here from injuries suffered in an automobile collision. Frank Wentz, 30, South Bend, was injuried fatally when his car went over an embankment during a race
at South Bend. ,
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Mrs. Minnie Ogden
MISSION NURSE REPORTED SAFE
Tibetan Worker, Known Here,"on Way to U. S. After Escape.
Mrs. Minnie A. Ogden, missionary and nurse at the farthest mission from the United States, today was reported en route to America after months spent in dodging Chinese Communist troops and effecting her escape from Batang, Tibet. Indianapolis* friends of Mrs. Ogden and the United Christian Missionary Society, 222 Downey-av, have received word of her perilous flight over the Himalaya Mountains to safety in French Indo-China. Foraging for food in the mountain wilds, Mrs. Ogden, who is nearly 60 years of age, escaped from the thick of fighting between regular Chinese troops and parties of marauding Communists.
Veteran in Service
She had spent weeks nursing wounded combatants in the two armies. During her Tibetan stay she lived cn United Christian Missionary Society property. She has spent, with the exception of furloughs to the United States, 31 years at the “roof of the world.” The Rev. J. C. Ogden, her husband, died in 1929 in California and Mrs. Ogden returned to the mission in 1931. She has two children in the United States, Harold Ogden, Washington, and Mrs. R. A. Peterson, Bellefontaine, O. She is expected to remain in this country because of unsettled conditions in Tibet.
HELD PROBLEM FORU. S. STUDY.
Low Interest Rates Also} Need Correction, Wood Tells Institute.
By United Press UNIVERSITY, Va. July 6.—Record low interest rates and fear of inflation are the two major problems facing the investing public, Orrin G. Wood, Boston, president of the Investment Banks Association of America, told the institute of public affairs here today. Mr. Wood’s address was one of several delivered before round-table conferences sponsored by the University of Virginia. He contended that the low interest rates and the fear of inflation are caused by government policy, although he emphasized that he did not intend to criticise the present or previous Administrations. Prinicpal cause of present low the large amount of excess reserves of member banks of the Federal Reserve. System. Building up of the reserves has resulted, he said, from (1) a subnormal demand from industey for its current uses; (2) the unsettled condition of continental European affairs, and (3) the “policy of the Federal gowernment in pursuing a low money rate policy to an extreme limit.” As the three principal reasons why investors should fear inflation, Mr. Wood listed: 1. “Because inflation {turns all industry into a great speculation. 2. “Because it is the death knell of thrift if it reaches a violent form, i . “He has no safe hedge against
VICTIM OF SLEEPING POTION SUCCUMBS
Two Other Members of Family Die in Same Manner, Report.
William C. Morasky, 57, of 326 N. Chester-av, died yesterday in the Methodist Hospital where he was taken June 30 after an alleged suicide attempt by drinking an overdose of sleeping potion. He was the third in his family to die in that manner, according to police. His wife and daughter, Miss Ruth Morasky, an invalid, took an overdose of the powder May 24, police said. The daughter died May 27 and the mother the following day. Funeral services are to be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Dorsey Funeral Home, 3925 E. New Yorkst. Burial is to be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Morasky was an employe of the Hendren Printing Co. Two nieces are the only survivors. They are Miss Edith Eleanor Hambrock and Miss Rosemary Hambrock of
interest rates, Mr. Wood said, is]
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By United Press WASHINGTON, July 6—A school for employers of domestic servants as well as schools for training servants themselves was suggested by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today during an inspection of WPA projects for women in the District of Columbia. “The women would rather learn to do anything fh the world than domestic service,” "Mrs. Roosevelt commented. “Conditions in household service are so bad and pay so low that they don’t want to train for it. “Along with the schools for domestic service should go a school for employers.”
RIVER PROJECT
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LAND OFFERED
William Hapgood Is First to Donate Property for Plan.
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trians, fishermen and canoeists, and a continuous bridle path along the river's course. Beautification by development and planting with the hope of preventing wind and stream erosion is also included in the program. It is thought that when the forests are made accessible to tourists, Indiana municipalities will be
forced to clean up their polluted |
streams and water supplies. Mr. Simmons, when informed of the League's action, said that Conservagion Department was very ambitious to carry out such a program and that he believed the league organization represented the first step in the right direction.
Survey to Be Made
Mr. Hapgood’s tract of land, known as the Brookwood Farm, totals approximately 400 acres. Until a preliminary survey has been made, the exact acreage to be turned over to the state from Brookwood Farm will not be determined. Mr. Hapgood said that there were two natural camp sites on his property along the river. In anticipating the proposed bridle path, he said “If the state could obtain title to all the banks of the river from ‘S. Harding-st south to my farm, a continuous trail could be laid out for seven miles without the interference of a single road crossing.” The league is to meet again during the month to map details of the project and a membership drive.
Pockets Picked, Police Told Two thefts by pickpockets were reported to police over the weekend here. A. J. Langle, Elkhart, said his purse containing $50 was stolen at Riverside Park. C. H. Lawrence, Southport, said his purse
containing $8 was taken in a down-!
town store.
SHIEOES SLAYING PROBE
Mrs. Freed Is Expected to - Give Herself Up to Police Tomorrow.
By United Press 4 CHICAGO, July 6—Eddie Freed, moon-faced . “collector” for the Al Capone syndicate in prohibition's hey-day, surrendered to police to= day to tell what he knew of events leading to the slaying of beautiful Annabelle Blake. Freed, part-owner of a “hot-cha spot” along North Clark Street's “tine seled “White Way,” presented hime self with his attorney, Abe Maroe vitz. He declined to give specific ine formation on incidents which might have been responsible for the sudden, gun-climax which terminated the career of the blond play girl.
Expect Wife to Give Up
The United Press learned Mrs. Freed planned to walk into the Hudson-st police station shortly be= fore 9 a. m. tomorrow. She has contacted her attorney through friends. She was believed the mys= tery woman who fled from Miss Blake's apartment a moment after the shooting. : Freed, brother-in-law of Jack Guzik, a Capone vice chief, said he had not seen his wife since the day of the killing. Shaken and haggard, he repeated over and over: “I can't believe it. I can't believe that Ruth did it.” He was evasive when it came to explaining his acquaintance with Annabelle, whose diary told of drinking sprees withr “Eddie.” “Oh, I knew her,” he said. “She upsed to com earound the Nut House now and then.” Police have suggested that the “Eddie” mentioned was Freed. “Here you are, captain,” Marovita called as he and Freed entered the police station. “Here’s your man,”
Parries Questions
Freed, flashily dressed in blue suit, blue shirt and white tie, posed willingly for photographers. Freed, apparently coached caree fully by his attorney, answered rou tine questions frankly but parried others. : He admitted a previous marriage to Rnna Kolztske but denied her reputed charge that his present wife broke up their marriage. He said he and Ruth “got along like the ave erage married couple” and was sie lent when police accused him of quarreling with her early Thursday morning. To the question, “Have you and Annabelle been intimate,” he ree plied: “I would like to co-operate with the authorities, but my wife's liberty is at, stake and until I get a chance
to talk with her I have nothing else to say.”
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