Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1936 — Page 3
PAIR TO KEEP
BY JOE COLLIER The most dramatic thing, perhaps, about drought-plagued Marion County farms is that next year’s | hay crop of 30,000 acres already is |suines, Clover and alfalfa were seeded
WAR PROMISE
{ with grains harvested this year. The | sun has burned the tender little
Pictures above have captured illustrations of both bright and cull
unabated.
- spots in the Marion County farmers’ outlook as the drought goes on
No. 1 shows Emersoni Mithoefer as he looks over one of his herd : of dairy cattle whose production of milk during the heat has been cur-
tailed by neary half.
No. 2 shows the beef cattle of Jacob Cooperman, one mile south. of New Bethel on Franklin-rd, gathered around the water tanks, idle in
Donald McGibeny, Wife to Go to Conlie, France, for ‘Rewedding.’
BY JAMES THRASHER When Donald McGibeny and his wife sail from New York for' Europe tomorrow they will be on their way to a “rewedding” ceremeny in. the little French village of Conlie in the Sarthe. Whether you know Mr. McGibeny as the popular NBC-WMAQ Chicago news commentator, or as the son of Hugh McGibeny, head
of the violin department of Arthur |
Jordan Conservatory of Music, you doubtless know him as a globe trotter. Mr. McGibeny went to Conlie as zone major in the American Army, in charge of billeting troops. He made a hit with the citizenry there; the head of the town’s leading family wanted to adopt him, and towns= people wanted to make him mayor. He didn't accept either of these offers. but he did promise to come back to Conlie to be married. But love and times being what they are, Dondld McGibeny and Ruth Thompson Owen couldn't pack up and go to France when they decided to marry in September, 1934, so they now are taking their first opportunity for a second honeymoon. The burghers of Conlie : promise them a gala time. The mayor also plays tuba in the town band, so there is to be a parade with music, and Mr. McGibeny hopes that the village abbe, with whom he played ball during the war, will officiate. There are to be typical Conlie wedding presents, too. The district's famous champagne won't be such a problem, but Mrs. McGibeny is wondering what to do *with the live chickens, ducks, young pigs and pigeons which peasant custom dictates for such occasions.
Mr. McGibeny plans business as]
well as pleasure. He is to leave tomorrow armed with letters which, he believes, are almost certain -to get him interviews with Hitler, Mussolini, Leon Blum and Sir Anthony Eden. Then there are the Olympic games to see, and he hopes to be in Ireland when further efforts are made to raise the hulk of the Lusitania,
Taught in Syria According to Mr. McGibeny Sr. his son Don started globe-trotting rather early. Upon graduation from Hamilton College, he took a teaching position at Robert College in Beirut, Syria. This was in 1913, and Don's father recalls that the new teacher nearly caused an interna-
tional fracas by spanking a Turkish prince. Young
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if it rained this minute. Alfalfa and clover could be seeded in the same fields again this fall, and alfalfa would come out all right. Maybe clover would and maybe it wouldn’t. But fo do that the farmer must buy the seed, and that’s already pretty scarce and getting scarcer. ' Horace Abbott, Marion County Agricultural Agent, who has been “on the go” through the drought much like the country doctor of horse-and-buggy days, brought’ out the above as a sideline worry he thinks many farmers haven’t gotten around to.
All Alfalfa Fields Ruined
Good alfdlfa seed, he said, comes from Northwestern states and they have had hay crop failures this year, because of the drought. Grade B seed comes from Okldhoma, XKansas and Missouri, and they also are drought plagued. The most any farmer in the county has made ‘this year is iwo
cuttings of alfalfa. Some have made | only one. A tour of 65 miles in every |
township in the county yesterday failed to reveal a single alfalfa field fhat was not seared and had not stopped growing. Sixty days ago alfalfa hay in Marion County was offered for sale at $8 a ton. The price today is between $20 and $25 a ton. One cow producing milk eats approximately 15 pounds daily, and they're eating it now when they ordinarily would be in pasture. There is not an acre of green pasture in the county to-
a broad expanse of burned pasture. No. 3, a bright spot, shows the differerice in growth thus far between native Indiana corn, shown on the left, and a hybrid corn, theory of which was developed at Purdue University. The hybrid corn is drought-resisting and has stood up bette, than any other planted, Hor-
ace Abbott, Marion County agricultural agent, revealed. Note the arrow
pointing to a man, all but enveloped in the hybrid corn, Whereas Mr. Abbott is plainly visible inspecting the native corn. No. 4 shows Art Willsey, High School-rd and 34th-st, as he fingers newly threshed wheat that was expected to make between 25 and 30° bushels to the acre. Undamaged by drought, the quality is the best:
seen in Indiana, grain elevator men said.
day, and hasn‘t been for mearly three weeks. This means to the household in
Indianapolis that milk prices problably have no chance to revise
downward before spring, and may’
go even higher.
It means to the business man that the drought already has taken a large slice out of the annual average farm income of between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 in the county. Moreover, farm income is new, or created; wealth. . There are 2980 farms in So Jefmore than five
There "dre stock farmers,’ dairy farmers, produce farmers and canning factory farmers. Every one of them is more or less damaged by drought.
Tomato Crop Hurt
If there is rain soon, and enough of it, and if the heat leaves, the tomato farmers can get a crop. They may have to replant, certainly will in some places. But it will mature, Mr. Abbott said. However, there was not a single
arion: eres: Many are several hupdred..
one of more than a score of fields observed yesterday that ‘was even near the growth usual at this time of the year. Some first crops have been harvested and the fruit was approximatgly half as large as it should have béen, and was blistered by the sun. The 1930 United States census showed Marion County's tomato crop harvested for an approximate dollar income of $177,222, second only to Johnson County in the state, and Johnson County, reports say, is no better off this year. Dairy and stock farmers, having about .given up. on the hay crop,
| practically are suffering with the corn crop which pants daily in dust |
fields under a blazing sun. Harry Richard, manager of the Former's vator on Stafe Road 31, Southport, said of the corn “If it rains within 24 hours, half of the crop is gone.” He also said that few farmers have any of last year’s corn around to feed or sell. All corn is short stalked and the silage problem. is serious.
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Tellis Hensley, fatmer south of Glenns Valley, said‘ that he seeded 20 acres of peas this spring and, he said, any one who can find 12 live. stalks can have the whole harvest. Edwin Kendall, Wayne Township farmer, surveyed his corn field and found what a false friend a sudden thunder shower can be, even in such
a parched era. All over the top of an otherwise better than average field one could see browned leaves. When the rain fell it ran down the leaves and caught in little troughs against the
stalks. Next 100 degree sun steamed
the water and killed the leaves.
John T, Sawyer, farmer near West: + | Newton, put a different angle on
the problem. ' He said he was feeding 300 hens these days and 'buying eggs for his family to eat. The heat has cut that much dato egg production, he said. Jacob Cooperman, stock farmer one mile south of New Bethel on Franklin-rd, looked across a broad expanse of useless pasture and saw, his Herd lying idly by the water n
Sell them now with the market :
going down? Keep them and feed them corn with the crop. failing, or
hay with the crop failed, and im-
ported hay selling at nearly $25 a ton? Mr, Cooperman hasn’t got it all figured out yet.
“What does the eountry banker i | Say about it? :
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TAX COLLECTION GAINS REPORTED
$68,485,731 Total Internal Revenue From State Highest in 10 Years.
Collection of internal” revenue taxes in Indiana during the fiscal year ending June 30 soared to $68,485,731.27, establishing a new peak
for the last; 10 years, Collector Will H. Smith reported today. _ Toted collectipns exceeded those of 1935.by po. 192.49, despite a net loss of $9,371,660.29 in processing taxes; "he said. Due to the Supreme “Court ‘decision "outlawing this tax, these collections: dropped from $10,007,852.78 last year to $636,192.49 this year. More than half of this year’s total was: furnished by taxes on distilled spirits and beer; ' Spirits tax revenue totaled $25926,464.67, an 'increase of approximately: $5,800,000 over 1935, and beer tax collections ‘were a ipmgasl a gain of about $2,000,000. the preceding year. Co and individual income tax pr Bi also showed
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substantial increases,7 he reported. The corporation collections totaled $11,361,491.03, a gain of about $3.500,000, while the individual income tax total of $8,520,874 was approximately $2,300,000 higher than last
“year.
The estate and gift tax Sollestions, totaling $1,614,922.71 and $1,221,456.05, respectively, showed a commined decrease of approximately $300,000, as compared with the 1935 figure. ©.
BOY DROWNS AFTER . BEACH IS CLOSED
Negro Youngster Loses Life in Eagle Creek; Rescue Efforts Fail. A Negro boy, who had gone in swimming after a guard had closed the beach, was drowned in .Eagle Creek at Howard-st’ last night. The victim was Samuel Stephens, 13, of 1407% Kappes-st. After diving for 45 minutes, the guard, Thomas Bryant, Negro, 50, of 1337 Cornell-av, recovered the body. The fire department rescue squad was unable to revive the boy. Bryant told police he had roped off -the WPA, swimming beach and was ready 0'go home when the boy decided on another plunge.
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Terre Haute Officer Sla During Holdup Chase.
By United Press PARIS, Il, July 17 ~—Willis Puller, 26, sought for the slaying of a Terre Haute (Ind. deputy sheriff, arrested by Paris police today. Chief Deputy Sheriff Paul Man kin, 45, was shot to death at Ter Haute last night when hé trapped robbery ‘suspect in an alley, The slayer escaped, a but Ne companion, Shepherd Blackmore, was captured and implicated F He said he met Fuller Wednes night at Evansville, Ind, and ca with him to Terre Haute on freight train. Terre Haute police were calle last night after two men held up William Cooper and his companion,
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of $1.10, police said.
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NEELYVILLE, Mo. July : Farmers now start work in
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