The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 March 1937 — Page 4
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TRAKFK IN OIU GS FROM FAR | S ono out that the price of opium U EAST ENDED AT HONOLULU j rising. j Last October smoking opium was HONOLULU, (UP)- Down murky . selling foi S.'JOfi a tin lead and brass Tin Can Alley, through drab resorts. | containers about the size of small toand over the “grapevine," word has bacco cans, holding six and two-
With Scenarist Before Murder
Katherine Henderson Called as witness at the Inquest in connection with the mysterious death of Humphrey Pearson, Hollywood scenarist, Katherine Henderson. his secretary, testified that she had accompanied the Pearsons to a film colony night club the night of his death. Pearson was found in bed, dead of a gunshot wound, his wife by his side crying hysterically for him to awake. He had threatened to kill himself several times, it was reported.
thirds ounces, or 2,917 grains. That supply is sufficient to maintain an addict 185 days, allowing 16 grains per day, which experts say is the minimum sufficient to keep a smoker going. Shortly afterward the price fell by some $40 a tin. Then Commander Stanley V. Parker was assigned to Honolulu to cordinate customs, internal revenue, coast guard and narcotics law enforcement. With Commander Parker came a new staff of treasury agents and customs men.
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The price drop may have been occasioned by release in Honolulu of a large supply of opium. With vigorous enforcement moves in the offing, a dealer or group of dealers might, have rushed in to dispose of his
stocks.
Now, four months later, the price is rising. Authorities grimly remark that "not much of the stuff is to be had at any price.” Without killing a man, and without publicity — which they have shunned the treasury department men have put a throttling grip on a business whose ramifications and mysteries are endless. Information shows that shuttling back and forth on passenger ships from the Orient, for the most part, | are large stocks of narcotics which agents have been unable to land. Secreted in false-bottom trunks, hidden in suitcases, stuffed in tiny rubberized silk bags, wrapped in glace paper, inserted in rubber heel plates. ; belts and false teeth—put in the most cunning places that some the world’s most vicious criminals can devise the opium, the heroin, cocaine and morphine must go on. traveling back and forth until "things ease I
up."
The Pacific coast maritime strike has had one little-known blessing: it has cut into the delivery of dope traffickers. Oriental dealers are known to favor passenger ships for delivery purposes, since their calls are more dependable, and generally there is less chance of detection. More important in relation to the decline in Honolulu and trans-Paeific traffic has been the work of Commander Parker, C. T. Stevenson, head of the Honolulu narcotics bureau. Carl Eifler, chief inspector of customs. V. O. Bruen. customs agent, and others. Steamship lines are doing their utmost to stamp out the trans-Pacific traffic, for they may be fined as much as $36,000 for a single seizure, or S25 an ounce for opium and other dangerous drugs discovered aboard a ship that have not been manifested. In one year one line faced fines totaling $74,000. indicating size of the penalties attached to this section of the law. Size of the possible levies indicates, indirectly, the general value of the total narcotics trade across the Pa-
cific.
The last annual report of the bureau of narcotics showed that in 1935 major seizures and known shipments in Honolulu, the Pacific northwest, and southwest yielded approximately 2..033 tins of opium. At the current reputed Honolulu sales price- $300 a
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tin value of this would be nearly $610,000. This is a wholesale price, probably one half the cost to the
, final customer the addict.
’ This total does not include “white stuff" seizures of cocaine, morphine, heroin and similar narcotics, which relatives are more expensive than opium. Considerable quantities of j “white stuff” are taken yearly from j mainland points, although little is
! reized in Honolulu.
Honolulu definitely is not a dumpj ing ground, way point, or relay stai tion for international narcotics smuggling rings, authorities insist. They point out through shipment of opium and other narcotics to the ; United States obviously is easier than attempts to transfer the contra- ;
band here.
FIVE AUTOS IN CRASH RENO, Nev., (UP)—A ,E. LeBourveau insists he holds the world’s record for having the greatest number of automobiles involved in the same accident. He says he was stopped in the middle of the road with two other car i behind him when a fourth car carrying another car on top of it crashed into the entire string and five autos participated in the wreck. .♦cj •’.• -j- •!• •* -r -b -i* *!• ® * BELLE UNION + •!* 4* + *!• -1- -I* -1* -b -b {5} Noble Wallace and family spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howson near Amo. Mrs. James Smedley and son Morris and Mrs. George Smedley. Lawrence McCammack and Mrs. Basil Staley spent Wednesday with Mrs. Grace Smedley at an Indianapolis hospital. She is reported improving Charles Hodge spent Friday night with his aunt, Mrs. Ethel Stringer. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Haines. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hodge were Sunday tlinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Estil Hodge, at Fillmore. Mr. and Mrs. Lofty Stringer and sons and Charles Hodge spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fisher at StUesville. Oliver Stringer and daughter Gertie were in Greencastle Saturday. Mrs. N. D. Wallace attended a meeting of the Coterie club at Amo Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Lottie Bray. Miss Gertie Stringer spent Friday in Terre Haute. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Clearwaters visited Mr. and Mrs. Will Cooper, Sunday night.
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LETTER OF 1337 FROM JACKSON HIGHLY PRIZED DENVER. •UP) A prized posses- ^ sion of Raymond Miller, former Democratic national e nmitteeman for ! Colorado, is a letter written by Andrew Jackson more than 100 years ago (Jan. IS 1837). which remains as legible as the day it was written in “Old Hickory’s’’ bold, scrawling •
hand.
The letter was written to Mr. Miller's mother, the late Mrs Rachel A. . J. Hitt, who was 12 years old at the time, and is an affectionate acknowledgement of the present of a pair of socks which she knitted herself and sent to President Jackson at the White House. When Jackson: was senator from Tennessee and later president, he was accustomed to stop at the home of Mrs. Miller’s parents in Bourbon county. Ky.. to break the tiring jour- , ney by stage coach with visits to his friends. Mrs. Miller’s name came from this friendship and is a combination of the names of "Old Hickory” and his wife, Mrs. P-achel Jackson. President Jackson’s letter follows: “To My Dear Miss Rachel A. J.
Hitt:
“Your much esteemed present by Col. R. M. Johnston has been received. I esteem this present high-
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* Mrs. Henry Osborn * •!• -b •’• •!• -b -b -b -b -!• •!• -b ^ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beck and Clarence Beck and family spent Sunday with Lizzie Bugg in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Smith spent
Monday with Frank Lane.
The Groveland Community club held an all-day meeting with Mrs. Fred Beck last Thursday. The day was spent in tacking comforts for flood sufferers. Four comforts were
tacked.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Larkin and children spent Sunday with friends at Plainfield. Mrs. Fred Beck spent Tuesday with Mrs. Clarence Beck. Mrs. Alma Summers spent a few days last week with her parents at Bridgcpcr:.
icalthier. gains were made faster, two bushels less com were needed for 100 pounds of gain and the pigs finished one to two months earlier than the limited grain fed pigs. Shelled com and tankage, self-fed on pasture, were usually satisfactory, •^ill feeding corn alone on alfalfa pasture produced low cost gains, but r.ore days were required to finish the pigs to the same weight as those getting corn and tankage. Shelled corn ind soybean oil meal, self-fed on alfalfa pasture, made gains as economically as corn and tankage in feeding trials on the Purdue university hog farm. County Agent Guy T. Harris has on hand several bulletins >f Purdue university feeding trials 'o: tin asking.
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WHEN PIGS ARE ON PASTURE
ORGANIC MATTEF, IN SOIL CONSERVE WATER SUPPLY “Soils that contain an adequate •upply of organic matter or humus vill absorb a much larger portion of ainfall than will those soils in which the organic matter is low,” recently stated R. O. Cole, extension conservation specialist of Purdue university. “Thus.” continue I Cole, “surface '•oils which contain mom organic matter do not erode as readily as do subsoils in which the organic matter 1
stalks, straw.
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dues, and another way is by tht plication of barnyard manure, a third way is by turning i green manuring crops, such aa i soybeans, and sweet clover. “Fundamental steps in soil moisture conservation,” accortim the specialist, “includes good crop tations, liming, proper fertilial the use of clover crops, and the crease of organic matter supply,'
Thcr ar two practica’ methods of feeding spting pigs for market on pasture. One is to full grain feed from start to finish, and the other is to full feed the pigs to 60 or 70 pounds, then limit the grain on pasture until new com is ready to fat-
ter. them in the fall.
Good legume pasture saves about 20 per cent of the grain in hog feeding. Alfalfa is generally the hog pasture. It is not practical to feed less than two pounds of grain
•u-mlv is low. And. too. soils with a high humus content usually produce
larg i crop yield.-.
“Organic matter causes the soil to act more like a sponge and absorbs greater quantities of water instead of allowing it to run off the surface. This action can be illustrated by pouring a small amount of water on an uncovered table top and then tilting the table slightly. The water best '' oon runs and forms a puddle on the floor. But suppose, instead of pouring water on an uncovered table
daily per 100 pounds of live weight. I t0 P- that towels or blotting paper
Five years of records on thousands of spring pigs on Indiana farms show that full grain fed pigs were
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were placed on the table first. In this case a large amount or perhaps all of the water would have been absorbed by the towels or blotting paper. The table top with the covering is somewhat like soil that con-
\Ve have a large display of Mauso- tain s a good supply of organic mat-
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orLT’ an< l I Ind ? V “ U !l men, ‘ “Organic matter may bo increased
orials. Y our inspection invited. in several
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ways,” remarked Cole.
17 E. Walnut | ‘‘One of these is plowing under corn
C ROI AND FEED LOANS Applications for emergency c and feed loans for 1937 are nowl received at Greencastle at tbe a* agent’s office for the field supi of the emergency crop and feed! section of the farm credit adoii tration. These loans will be made only farmers who cannot obtain! from any’ other source, as pro4 by regulations issued by the j nor of the farm credit adminil tion. The money loaned will be I Ited to the farmer’s immediate) actual cash needs for growinfl 1937 crops or for the pun feed for livestock and in no ini may exceed $400. Farmers are not eligible for I loans if they can borrow from ui dividual, production credit ass tion, bank, or other concern, gency crop and feed loans will be made by the farm credit adiri tration to standard retiabilitl clients of the resettlement admi tration whose current needs an) vided for by Resettlement. As in the past, the securityl these loans will consist of a fist I on the crop financed if the Ion for the production of crops, aal for the purchase of feed for livcdi then a first lion on the livestod 1 be fed. Landlords, or others Ml an interest in the crops or (lie I stock to be fed. will be requi waive their claims in favor oil lien to the governor of the farmo it administration until the loan si paid. Checks in pay: .ent of theappi* loans will be issued by the rej emergency crop ami feed loan o at St. Louis.
BANNER ADS GET RESULTS
CLOSING OUT SALE I will sell at auction at my farm, 5 miles east of Greencastle, I 1-2 mile southwest of Fillmore, my entire line of personal pro|»erty and livestock, beginning at 10:30, on. , WEDNESDAY, MARC H 10 3—HORSES—Grey mare, weight 1600, smooth month and sound Black horse, weight 1430, smooth mouth. An extra good work team. Extra good mare colt one year old. 7—CATTLE—3 black cows, 4 years old to freshen in Ma r ch' t ►'lack e*wv coming 3 years old, bred; 1 Roan cow, 8 y ears old. bred; 1 Jersey cow, d, years old, heed; 1 extra good black bull. 18—HOGS—18 Shoats, weighing from 80 to 100 lbs. CHICKENS—10 Rhode Is and Eel Hens. FEED—Home good yellow corn und some Vlfalfa hay. FARM IMPLEMENTS—Good John Deere walking break plow d sc harrow, coni planter, rotary hoe. cultivator, 6 hoe wheat drill, mowing machine, Sulky rake, wngon and flat top, with grain Ixmrds. Oak barrels, lo' chains, horse stretchers, fene? stretchers, hog fountains, 5 hog feeders, hog troughs, platform sca'e;, extra good set chain harness, hammer mill good as ik*w. 8in hell, 21 ft. long, good Ford motor with pulley’s, I dust collector and sackcr and stand, 3 screens 1-8 in., 1-4 In., 5-8 in. mesh, 9 A-hog houses with floors. Some gisid Household furniture 1 and numerous other articles This fann is for sale, as I will dexotc my time to my lumber and hardware business. Terms—t'-j>h. PHILANDER PRITTT, Owner. Col. Hurst A Hunter A nets. Alex Bryan, Clerk. Dinner served by Ijidiev Aid of Christian Church of Fillmore. Will show farm any time.
Veteran Skipper Wins Race to Open Season
To the whale back h earner. South Park, captained by ttm veteran •kipper. Clyde M. Tobin, went the honor of openhyg the I#37 navigation seaeon on the Gnat Lakes. The South Para completed its (rip from Detroit to devsiaaa with a load of automouiea only minutea anead of Its rival, the William Film The Coraiia. un- |* er Elmer A Masenian. wno haa won the race for many veaxa, was eliminated when the boat was caught In the ice ouuide Cleveland harbor..