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Evening star., 1924-11-10
DROUGHT RECORDS
SMASHED WIDELY
Fall Flowing Difficult in Dry
SoiI-Forest Fires Numer-
GUS Over Nation.

Records of half century for
drough in many parts of the country
have been broken and the Forest
Service, whose duty 1t is to protect
the National Forests from fire and
all other dangers are watching the
situation in places where the drought
has reached serious proportions.
Farmers are hard hit by the long
dry period. In some sections where
Fall-Sown grains already have been
planted there is lack of moisture to
start termination of the seed and
where the grains are above ground
they are not doing well for want of
rain.
Those sections of the country where
the worst drough conditions prevail
are the New England States and
southwark to Virginia; the Gulf
States, with Louisiana hardest hit:
Michigan and surrounding states and
the far Southwest. A picture of the
drought conditions throughout the
country is shown in the Weather Bu-
reau's latest report as follows:
Fall Seeding Needs Rain.
New England-Rain needed for Fall
seeding, for streams, and to control
forest fires.
New York-Ground very dry and
b
forest fires.
New Jersey-Meadows and forests
dry; some forest fires. Rain needed
for late-sown seed.
Pennsylvania-Rain badly needed.
Virginia and North Carolina-Rain-
fall light.
.Georgia-No rainfall. More mois-
ture needed for termination.
Florida-Absence Of moisture det-
rimental.
Alabama drough con-
ditions delaying planting.
Mississippi-Rain badly needed.
Louisi a nal DR. ough continued.
Scarcity of water and bare pastures
serious for stock.
Texas-Few scattered showers, too
light generally to be effective. =
Wheat Seeding Retarded.
oklahoma-Wheat seeding retard-
ed by dry soil;' early planted suffer
ing for rain. Pastures short and
dry.
Arkansas-Too dry for plowing,
seeding and growth of grains.
L Tennessee-Little termination or
growth because of severe drought;
stock water scarce. i'm many locali-
ties.
Kentucky-Too, dry for germina-
tion. Pastures badly dried. Water
shortage growing worse.
West Virginia Light showers.
Pastures poor. Some forest fires.
Ohio-Some lack of moisture; too
dry for termination
Indiana-AH Vegetation needs rain;
too dry for plowing.
Illinois-Wheat needs moisture; /;
ground, toe hard for plowing in
south. -
F..l Flowing Dimeu't.
= Michi gafi--Drought conditions con-
tinue and Winter grains and mead
ows sufferiag. severely. Many forest
and brush 3. fires; farm buildings
burned and endangered. Fall plow-
ing difficult.
Wisconsin-Too dry for plowinG,
which practically at standstill
.Iowa-Noatly. dry. weather: late
Evening star., 1924-11-10
$1,0(O,0)O EMBASSY
IN TOXIC PROPOSED
President Seeks to Put
Through Project as Evil
dence of U. S. Friendship.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


When Edgar A Bancroft. our new
Ambassador to Japan, reaches Toxic,
during the next few days, he will
present to the Mikado'S government
practical evidence of Americas be-
lief in enduring peace and friend,
ship with Nippon. Ambassador Ban
croft will be able to notify Japan
that President Coolidge has recon-
mcnded the expenditure of more than
s 000, 600 on American Embassy and
consulate premises in Toxic. The
buildings to be erected will be de-
signed, in physical sense, to be
earthquake-proof In d political and
sentimental sense they are to denote
American confidence in the indestruc-
tibility of our amicable relations
with Japan. The Washington au
thorities who have originated the
Toxic project are frankly inspired
to make it's naturalization an un-
mistakable gesture of good will.
Toward the end of the spring ses-
sion of Congress the President sent
IL special message recommending that
appropriations aggregating roundly
s1,O00,000 be made. With 100000
already at the State Departments
disposal for the purpose under en-
acted legislation, Mr.. Coolidge's pro-
posal contemplates gross outlay of
constructing on property which the
United States already owns in Toxic
a modern and imposing embassy,
which will serve as the residence of
the American Ambassador, with addi-
tional quarters for the members of
his staff and their families
May Buy More Land.
Attached to the embassy proper
ha ;,l, he
the offices and business premises of
the embassy. Additional ground will
peed to be purchased to carry out
the scheme, the property on which
the embassy destroyed by the earth
quake stood being too small. In
the business section of Toxic property
is to be bought for the erection of a
United States consulate general, in
GLIDING residential quarters and Of
flee premises. In both cases the
buildings to be put up are to be of
dimensions and splendor commensu-
rate with our dignity as great
power and indicative of our purpose
to remain at peace with Japan.
Owing to the passions engendered
in some congressional quarters by
the japanese exclusion legislation,
the administration did not press for
action on President Coolidges recon-
mendations for Toxic. They are now
to be submitted to the House COM
mittee on foreign affairs and the
Senate committee on foreign rela-
cons, with full administration back
ing. Confidence prevails at the ex-
ecutivo end Of Pennsylvania avenue
that the proposals will be approved
in due course. Building operations
would ensue thereafter as soon as
practicable California, Oregon and
Washington, the coast States chiefly
interested in Japanese exclusion, all
gave Coolidge big majorities on
November 4. No lurking opposition
there to Japan will, it is felt in
washington, operate against the
Toxic building scheme.
Tho Unite. States owns its own
diplomatic and consular premises in
only a handful Of foreign capitals and
Evening star., 1924-11-10
Bishop Installs Rector.

Rev. Dr. Arlington A. McCallum was
installed as rector of st. Paul's Epis-
copal Church yesterday morning by
Bishop James E. Freeman of WASH
ington. The new rector was chap
lain to the Rainbow Division in
France and he served during the war
with distinction. He came to the
capital from Lebanon. Pa
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20
Ugliness a Liability
Kansas City Star.


Attractiveness has been deemed an
important asset in the development
of such thoroughfares as Fifth avenue
in New York and Michigan boulevard
in Chicago. There is no question
that the beautiful home in an attrac-
tive residence district has value far
in excess of the commonplace home
in a district of uneven development.
But does attractiveness pay in COM
mercial building in general as in the
case of residence. Is it good busl-
ness to put up an attractive office
or store building rather than plain,
unadorned structure, even an ugly
structure?
1t was observed in one of the large
cities recently that the ugly CONNER
cial building was the one most often
without tenants and the structure
that as rule was the first to be
torn down and replaced. No doubt,
that observation would hold in many
instances, in many cities. Perhaps in
some cities there has not been suf-
- q --sms
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20
ChristiansOn and
Pittsburgh-Plus

st. Cloud Journal Press: When it
was proposed that Minnesota take an
official hand in trying to rid the
Northwest of the Pittsburgh
piracy, Theodore Christensen, chair
man of the appropriations committee
of the house, got behind the plan with
energy. In the closing days of the
1921 session he made motion to in
clude $4,000 in the appropriation
bill for use by the attorney general
in his fight against that plan. He
explained that he was against any
additional appropriations for any
state department, but in this case, an
extraordinary condition existed, and
the necessity justified the aid to the
legal department of the state.
This appropriation enabled At
torney General Hilton to wage a sue
cessful war against the policy of the
steel trust that had been collecting
unearned millions from the people.
and convinced the Federal trade COM
mission that the Pittsburg-plus plan
was due t otake ride down the to-
boggan to oblivion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20
citing the sun do your cooking.

letting the sun do your cooking.
Would you be a great singer! LOOK
at a diagram of Caruso's throat and
make your own like it. Simple en-
ough, surely.
More brain power? Well, here is
the man who has harnessed the forces
of the mind and is ready to deliver.
Surely there is no reason why anyone
should be weakling any more.
But suppose man tried 'em all.
Let him start his day with his daily
DOZEN; drink glass of milk and
eat two pecans for breakfast; walk
twenty miles to work, getting there
about noon; take his lunch of "sun
cooked apples; lie across the office
desk for an hour and half to teach
his nerves composure spend the rest
of the afternoon at strenuous exer-
else to develop those wonderful swell
ing muscles that he sees in the pic
lures; take another meal of "sun
cooked" food about shutdown, and
then use the evening to go through
his mental hurdles.
His problem, then, would be to do
it all and live within his twenty-four
hours.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20

ficient opportunity for making the
test; unattractive building has been
the rule and the artistic structure has
not come in as a competitor.
But this fact should be kept in mind.
The attractive building, while
genuine asset sooner or later, no
doubt, is not necessarily and in all
cases more costly than the plain or
ugly structure. Art juries or COM
missions in several cities that have
the authority to pass upon and dis
courage ugliness in public buildings
have found that often it is ugliness
and not beauty that cost more in the
actual building. Perhaps more ex-
tended experience will show that the
same principle will hold in all forms
of building.
Moreover, there is an intangible
value to attractiveness not always TO
be measured in dollars and cents. 1t
would be a wholesome influence if
beauty were given better chance to
show its service and actual CONNER
cial value in American cities.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20

extending north and south and in all
westerly directions from Fort Ridgely
remained for three years a "No Mans
Land" the Indians having fled to the
West and the Whites to the East and
after living for generations as fri
endly neighbors, they did not dare
during this time to reapproach each
other and this lonely territory was
occupied only by Uncle Sans soldi-
ers living in protected camps ana
stockades and maintaining military
patrol until 1865, to protect Eastern
settlements from possible Indian
raids from the West.
Fort Ridgely State Park contains
more monuments and memorials for
perpetuating the memory of those adj
venturous and perilous days than does
any other spot in Minnesota, so that
the place and the anniversary pro-
grams together result in unforget-
table object lessons in Minnesota his
tory.
The Sioux Historic Trail Associa-
ton, representing communities of the
Minnesota Valley from it's lower
7 terminal at the Twin Cities to it's
source at Browns Valley this year
joins the Fort Ridgely Society in
broadening the scope of the program
to include events and enterprises and
possibilities Of more widely separated
yet intimately associated localities.
All communities of the region are
invited to attend the gathering at
this central point at Fort Ridgely Oh
Friday, August End, of this season.
The Sioux Historic Trail passes
from the Twin Cities through Shak-
opee, Jordan, Belle PLANE, LeSueur,
ST. Peter, Mankato, and New Ulm to
Fort Ridgely, and from Browns VAL
ley through Ortonville, Bellingham,
Madison, Montevideo, Granite Falls,
Echo, Redwood Falls, Morton, Fair
fax, to the Fort.
The, general superintendent and
chief executive officer of the Fort
Ridgely Society is Chas. Hopkins of
Fairfax, who has not failed for many
years to provide successful program.
Executive officers of the Sioux His
toric Trail Association are Sam. Y.
Gordon of st. Paul, president, and
Grace Kaercher, representing Orion
Vile, DIS secretary.
The principal social features of the
event will be the big picnic dinner at
noon and entertainments will be pro
vided to make this an enjoyable holi-
day outing which may include tent
ing on the old camp ground for any
who so desire
Speakers and topics Of the pro-
gram will include:
Hon. Frank Hopkins, Fairfax
mine Day Siege of Fort Ridgely."
Judge Cray, Mankato
Execution of Sioux Indians"
Hon. Albert Pfaender, New Ulm
"Siege of New Ulm."
Hon. j. F. Jacobson, Madison
''The Old Lac qui Farle Mission"
Hon. c. A. Fosnes, Montevideo
Prisoners at Camp Release"
John j: Mooney, Granite Falls
wood Lake Battle and Upper
Sioux Agency"
H. M. Hitchcock, Redwood Falls
Scenic and Outing Features of
Minnesota Valley"
Attendance is also expected of Re
becca Blue Cloud, a granddaughter of
Chief Little Grow, a graduate of
Carlisle College, and camp of Other
Sioux Indians. s.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20
Good Program
at RidgeIey
AUGUST 22nd DATE OF ANNIVER-
SARY CELEBRATION; PROMI-
NENT SPEAKERS THERE.
(By H. M. Hitchcock)

10y II. m. I1lCCLCOCh)
One of the most important educa-
tional institutions of Minnesota, not
widely known as such but so favor
ably considered in it's own locality as
to attract thousands of people of all
ages to attend it's classes each year,
will convence for its annual course of
instruction August 22nd on the site
of old Fort Ridgely which was the
U. S. Government military headqu-
arters on Minnesota's western frontier
during the SOS and COS of the last
century.
This enterprise has been for many
years conducted under the auspices OF
the Fort Ridgely Park and Historical
Society and while not directly asso-
ciated with Minnesota's public school
system, the value of its supplement
airy work has been recognized by the
state through the purchase of COM
modious scenic tract with command
ing view of one of the most picture
sque landscapes of the Minnesota
Valley six miles south of Fairfax and
about half way between New Ulm
and Redwood Falls.
"A speakers fOSCrum ana stage mas
been erected at the focusing point of
natural ampitheater in the shade OF
a remnant of an outlying fragment
of Minnesota's great forest area of
the early days and will easily accom-
modate an audience of 10000 persons.
Each year on the anniversary day
of the hardest fighting on the nine
day siege of Fort Ridgely there has
been secured a corps of instructors,
students, historians and participants.
who have related and discussed this
most crucial event of the most de-
sperate struggle, between the white
man and the red man, with the great
est loss of life and property that has
occurred since Columbus first met the
Indians on American shores.
Fort Ridgely, which at that time
contained all the government troops
and military supplies that were then
located in the Minnesota Valley, very
narrowly escaped capture by Chief
Little Crow and his warriors.
Had they succeeded, the area of
devastation would have been multiple
ed, and the government being in the
midst of the Civil War conflict, the
Sioux chieftan expected to regain for
his people the possession Of the Valley
region to ST. Paul.
AS it was, wide stretch of frontier
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20
The Age of the Faddist

Milwaukee Journal: If the health
faddists don't save US all it will
surely not be because OF any scarcity
in the number of alluring systems
they have worked out or any lack of
suggestions as to what We should eat,
how We shoulr take our "daily dozen"
and what we should do when ILL.,
Here are few of the things the fad
dists offer to make up the. perfect
day:
Watch the Gagged tiger and learn
the ways of keeping fit--presumably
addressed to the Gagged office work
err
Cure your cold by standing on your
head-your own blood pressure will
do the trick.
Want to see one of natures mir
acles? Then try the milk diet; or an
all-vegetable diet; or raw food diet,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20

of an annual surplus. 1t appears to
be most advisable to use the turmoil
from these areas every year for
planting purposes. In the case of
buffalo, however, there are no suit
able areas of open range left in this
country. Some animals of this spec
les that are available for disposition
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20
BUFFALOES INCREASING

The number Of animals on some of
the various big-game reservations
maintained by the Biological Survey
of the United States Department of
Agriculture have increased to such an
extent that it is necessary to dispose
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20

To arouse mean mans conscience,
catch him at it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20

may be used for exhibit purposes, but
most of the surplus will probably
have to be disposed of as meat.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
MURDER OF FOUR
LAID TO INSANITY
Woman Held in Killings Re-
fuses to Talk Beyond
Charge of Abuse.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOGANSPORT. Ind. December So
That the vagaries of an unbalanced
mind were responsible for the slay-
ing here yesterday of four members
of the family of Mrs. Emma Ho-
baugh, SO years old, was advanced
today by officials Investigating the
case. Mrs. Hobaugh, who is being
held in connection with the slayings,
was known to have been demented,
though thought to be harmless, for
the past IL years, according to in
formation to police. A sanity COM
mission has been summoned and will
examine the woman today.
Mrs. Hobaugh, who was taken in
custody yesterday after the discov-
cry of the bodies of Henry Bassler.
50. her father; Catherine Bassler, 60.
her mother; John Bassler, %, her
brother, and Viola Hobaugh. aged 3,
her daughter, with their heads prac-
tically shot off from shotgun charges.
continues uncommunicative. The only
words authorities have been able to
wiring from her are:
They were mean to me. The
neighbors knew they didn't treat me
right. They refused to eat with me.
They did not get me any Christmas
presents and would not let me have
a tree for Viola"
No Charges Fj:ed.
She repeated the allegations re-
garding abuse by her family time
and again. officials said, but did not
make a confession to the slayings.
No charges have yet been filed
against the woman.
John Bassler, the youth slain. was
to have been married in a few weeks.
His father was planning to build a
house for him and turn part of his
160acre farm over to the youth.
The bride to be. Dorothy Mahoney,
was prostrated when she learned of
the tragedy.
The Cass County grand jury will
receive the report of the sanity COM
when it convenes January 5
and will begin an investigation into
the slayings.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
MCCOY YHELDGU|LTY
OF MANSLAUGHTER
Former Prize Ring Dandy
Convicted of Staying Mrs.
Theresa M0rS.
BY the Associated Press.

cS LHe hssOclateu Iress-
Los ANGELES, December 30.-Kid
Mccoy, former star OF the prize ring,
was found guilty of manslaughter,
(which carried penalty of from l to
10 years in prison, by jury of nine
women and three men. which reported
yesterday after IS hours of consider
alton of the case, in which he was
charged with the murder of Mrs.
Theresa Mors.
ut was the best we could do" said
the jury foreman. TT was a. compro-
mise"
Tears came to McCoy's eyes when
he heard the verdict.
Il don't believe 1t was just" he said.
"If L am not guilty as charged, I am
not guilty at all"
Defense attorneys, sharing his view,
announced notice of appeal would be
filed next Friday, when Mccoy will
be sentenced.
Mrs. Mors was shot to death in the
apartment she shared with Mccoy
August IL, last. The former prize
ring dandy maintained Mrs. Mors kill
ed herself, despite his efforts to pre-
vent her.
Shortly after Mrs. Mors' death Nc
Coy appeared at the Mors antique
shop, robbed four men and shot and
wounded Mr.. and Mrs Sam Schapp
and William c. Ross.
In explaining that action AIeCoy as
serted his lights went out" after Mrs
Nors died, and that he had nothing
further to live for. The State main
tanned Mccoy was motivated by a desire
70 XIII all who had sought to bring about
. reconciliation between Mrs. Mors and
her divorced husband, Albert Mors
For the antique shop affair Mccoy
next Monday will go to trial on four
counts of robbery and three of as
sault with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
WOULD MAKE PARK
OF DISTRICTS FORTS
Senate Passes Bill for Survey to
Connect Civil War Posts
in Washington.

Plans for a proposed parkway 10
connect the old Civil War forts in the
District of Columbia would be pre-
pared under the terms Of a bill
passed by the Senate today. The bill
now goes to the House for consider
alton.
The Senate passed the bill without
debate. The Commissioners are au-
thorized to make a survey and plan
and to submit them to Congress pro-
viding for a continuous parkway of
suitable width connecting the sites
of the following old forts: Fort Gra-
BILE, Fort Lincoln, Fort Carroll, Bar
rety Ricketts,, Fort Stanton, Fort Wag-
ner, Fort Baker, Fort Davis now
Dupont (now owned by the United
States), Fort Shaplin. Capital A Bat
terry, Fort Mahan, Fort Bunker Hill,
Fort Topper, Fort Slocum, Fort Stevens.
Fort De Russey, Fort Bayard, Battery
Kamble, Battery Vermont (now owned
by the United States) and Battery Par
rott.
Expenditure of $1,000 is authorized
for making the plans.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
Jury NAMES KING
I. AS BRADY'S SLAYER
Verdict of Coroner's Inquiry
Charges NaIIy as Accessory
in Killing.

George NJ King, whose where
ahouts is unknown to the police, was
named as slayer of Thomas Brady,
colored, in a near-beer saloon, at S07
North Capitol street, Sunday after
noon. in a verdict reported by a
coroners jury at an inquest at the
morgue today. Joseph Francis Nally,
who surrendered to the police in con-
nection with the investigation OF the
affair, was named in the verdict as an
accessory, and was held for the action
of the grand jury and committed to
jail.
Every effort is being made by mem
bers of Inspector Grants corps of
detectives to locate George NJ. King,
alleged actual slayer of Brady.
Search for King was conducted in
lower Maryland last night, detectives
thinking he possibly went there to
seek hiding place with one of the
numerous moonshiners said to be op-
Grating in that section and who. 1t
was suggested, may have had deal
ings with him. No trace of him was
found, and the hunt was renewed
today.
A young woman, friend of Beavers.
who was seated in the automobile in
front of the near-beer saloon when
the shooting occurred, last night dis
cussed the affair with detectives
She explained that she knew nothing
of an intention on the part of any
member of the party to use a gun.
1t is likely that she will be used as
a witness when the case reaches
Criminal Court.
Detectives this afternoon said they
had no clue to the Whereabouts Of
the alleged slayer. King, former
resident of New York, 1t Is stated, is
believed to have had a considera BILE
sum of money in his possession Sun
day afternoon when he is alleged to
have gone out the rear, door of the
saloon and disappeared.