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Evening star., 1929-11-17
FARMERS ADVOCATE
RAILROAD RIVALRY
Competition in Northern California
Would Stimulate Production,
Commission Is Informed.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, November 16.-
Competition between railroads in North
ern California is desired by farmers
and stockmen, several agriculturists
testified today in the Interstate Com
merce Commission hearing into the
necessity of building new Oregon
California railroad.
Benefits the farmers expected from
the proposed Great Northwestern-Pa-
cific link between klamath Falls. Ore,
and Keddie, Calf. included economies
in shipping live stock, reclamation of
tillable acreage formerly under culti-
vation. increased consumption of prod
ucts from California farms and conse-
quent development of agriculture, COM
merce and industry.
Sheepmen, cattlemen. dirt farmers
and experts testified that lack Of COM
petition hampers production. Great
savings could be realized by stockmen,
several Of them said, If the proposed
line we're built. 1t would enable them
to ship cattle in and out of grazing
area now reached only by driving or
by roundabout and expensive railroad
service.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
WAGG0NER REFUSES
TO GIVE DEPOSITION
Former Telluride Banker Balks Ef-
forts to Get Testimony in $500, 900
Suit of Banks.
Ry the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 16.-Charles
D. Waggoner, former Telluride, Colo,
banker. refused today to answer any
questions when an attempt was made
to take his deposition in civil action
brought by ak New York banks to re-
cover S500,000 obtained from them in a
swindle for which Waggoner was sem
fenced to 10 years in the Federal Peni-
tentiary at Atlanta.
Waggoner refused for more than two
hours to leave his cell in the Federal
House of Detention, where he is being
held pending his removal to Atlanta.
After he consented to go into the ex-
animation room he refused to be sworn.
declined to sit down and asserted that
he would not answer any questions.
Waggoner was reported to have said,
II want to get out of this ROOM" He
was escorted back to his cell
He will be taken with other pris-
oners to Atlanta Tuesday.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
ALIBI IN SLAYING
DELAYED BY DEFENSE
Adjournment of Trial for Lunch
Holds Up Testimony to Show
Man Alive.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, Ala, November 16.-The
preliminary trial of DR.. @. W. Smith
and his son, Clyde, for the murder Of
Claude F. Avant, young Slocomb high
school principal. adjourned for. lunch
today without the testimony, promised
at the outset by defense counsel, which
would prove that Avant was alive and
away from the Slocomb school after
1880 pm. on the night Of his disap-
pearance.
= Lee Phillips, State convict. and the
prosecutions star witness, has testified
that Avant was slain by DR.. Smith,
with the assistance of himself and
Clyde Smith, about 7:30 pm. Septem-
Der 23 1928, in Avant's office in the
school building.
Four witnesses testified to seeing
Avant en- route or in Hartford, miles
west Of Slocomb between and 5 pm,
while the four others examined at the
morning session testified that Charley
Brown. colored, also charged with the
murder. attended a wedding on the
night Phillips asserted Brown, with the
assistance of Randell Jones, took
Avant's body to point near Bombay,
Fla, where 1t was discovered f1ve days
later.
The convict said DR.. Smith told him
he wanted to kill Avant to avoid pay
ment Of debt.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
FARM BOARD SENDS
GREETING TO GRANGE
Chairman Legge Extends Best
Wishes to National Master
at Seattle.


SEATTLE, Wash, November 10.
Good wishes of the Federal Farm Boaro
were received by the National Grange
convention delegates here today IN q
telegram to Louis j. Taber, natlonal
master. from Alexander Legge, chair
man OF the board. The message tol-
IAN Federal Farm Board members
ioin me in sending good wishes to the
delegates attending the sixty-thlrd an
nuaI convention. The Grange ana lts
strong organization is needed now more
than ever to help in developing a CO,
operative marketing system that VIII
obtain for the farmers a greater snare
of the consumers dollar.
"Our lob is to help in bringing TO
final realization the hopes and aspira- :
tions which the Grange has looked
forward to for more than half q CEN
tury."
with Samuel McKelvie and Charles
Wilson, members Of the Federal Board,
scheduled to speak at next Wednesdays
session Of the convention, the Grangers
today were preparing for q two-day
period Of lodge work and one day Of
sightseeing on Puget Sound.
Exemplification of degrees occupied
the time Of delegates and visitors yes
terday afternoon and evening and q
convocation Of the assembly was held at
today's one session.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
Yosemite's BLACK Maria" Rounds
Up Law-Breaking Grizzlies

Each bear has his own district in the
park, and when bad reports come in
from that territory the patrol wagon is
trundled out. The pipe is detached and
a piece of meat placed inside.
The guilty bear. smelling the meat
pushes into the pipe and the trap door
slams shut.
The punishment in the park for re-
calcitrant bears is Punishment. Those
caught are marked with a daub OF
paint, taken to the lower end OF the
mark and released. If they repeat
they are identified by the paint mari,
So keenly do the bears feel the dis
grace of being marked, 1t was said. that
only one has been known to return to
the scene of it's disgrace. This was q
mother bear, which came back Tor her
cub.
During October, IA bears had rides
in the black maria.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
RESOLUTION is AIMED
AT BISHOPS POWERS
M. z. Church South Group Seeks
Reduction of Term to Four
Years.
D. the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, November 16.-By vote
of 169 to "a, the North Georgia confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, late today adopted a memorial
proposing to the general conference
that bishops be elected for a four year
term instead of for life. Bishops would
be eligible for reelection under the
new plan, which also was approved re-
Gently by the South Georgia conference.
Further curtailment of the bishops
powers was sought with adoption of
another memorial urging that the
bishop be prohibited from making min
isterial appointments over the adverse
vote Of two-thirds of the presiding ell
ders Of his conference. The ruling
would not apply, however, to appoint
ment of the elders themselves.
The conference today voted non-con-
currence with memorial by Rev. Rem
bert G.. Smith of Washington, Ga,
seeking to keep the board Of temper
ance and social service out of personal
and party politics"
Evening star., 1929-11-17
Deaf Hear Again
Through New Aid
EGrpises No Bigger Than Dime
Wins Enthusiastie Following
Ten-DGy Free Trial Offer

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Evening star., 1929-11-17
NOVELIST is HONORED.
Munich Residents Give BANQUET
for Nobel Prize Winner.

MUNICH, Germany, November is
Of representatives of
Munich's literary, artistic and official
worlds gave a banquet tonight in honor
Of Thomas Mann. winner of the 1929
Nobel prize for literature.
Herr Mann read passages from his
newest novel, Marion and the Magi-
cian." Replying to a score of con-
gratulatory speeches, the German
novelist said that the prize primarily
honored German prose, German poetry
and Germany as a whole.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
RAIL ROBBERS FEWER.

90 Per Cent Decrease in Eight
Years Shown by Publication.
CHICAGO, November Is (P).-In the
face of an increase in general crime,
railway robberies have decreased SO per
cent in the last eight years. the Rail-
way Age said today
Glass l railways of the United States
lost $l2,727,947 by robberies in 1920
and only $92S,563 in 1928, survey
determined
The article said railway police have
averaged 81 convictions to every 100
arrests in recent years.
Brazil will establish bureau of for
eirn economic information.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
Bishop Weds Evanston Woman.

CHICAGO, November Is (P).-Miss
Eleanor Lorinda Hall, daughter Of Mrs.
William Tileson Hall of Evanston, today
was married to Right Rev. Elmer Will
son, d. D., Bishop of Eau Claire, Wis.
Bishop Charles Palmer Anderson, new
ly elected presiding bishop of the Epis-
copal Church, performed the cere-
mony.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
Guest at Dinner on 93d Birthday

MARTNSBURG, w. Va, November
IS Especially Mrs. Sarah McCloy was
the guest of honor at dinner observing
her ninety-third birthday anniversary,
given at the home of daughter, Mrs.
Anna J. O'Roke, here. All her children
and grandchildren. were present.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
Wrecked Ship Is Dynamited.

TAMPICO, November 16 GP.-The
tank steamer San Dustano of the Mex
ican Eagle Petroleum Co., a British
concern, was blown up and sunk today.
1t had run ashore during a storm and
had become a menace to ships entering
port.
Evening star., 1929-11-17

In spite of the recent severe storm in
Guatemala that country expects q
larger coffee crop than last year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-09
Grating Relationships
Not Clearly Explained

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.l
One Of the facts of plant life on
which scientists would like to have
more complete information deals with
the relationship of plants within which
grating may be done. AS Guy r.
Yerkes, of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, remarked recent
~, the limits of this botanical rela-
tionship are not clearly defined. eva
rieties within the same Species" he
said, rmay be expected to unite; for
example. all varieties of European
pear will grow on French pear stock.
Often different species within the same
genus will make satisfactory unions.
AS an example, most botanical spe-
cies of apple (Malus) will grow on
each other. On the other hand, cherry
will not unite with peach, although
both are placed by many botanists in
the genus Prunus. In many cases,
plants more distantly related may be
grated and will grow, as hawthorn
upon apple and firethorn upon noun
tain ash. The citrus fruits are related
closely enough so that it is by no
means uncommon to see single
stock, which has been grated, pro-
ducing different fruits on different
limbs, lemons on one, oranges on an
other, and perhaps grapefruit and
tangerines as WELL" a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-09
Electricity Great Aid
to Market Gardeners

Electrician gardening has proved to
be practical and economically profit
able occupation in Sweden. Although
the recent winter was one of the
hardest in history, such garden prod
ucts as homegrown raspberries." Gu
cumbers and the most delicate of gar
den tioy ers have been available at all
times. In the gardens near Hamling-
by. small town north of Stockholm,
10000 tulips. 1,50O lilies-of-the-valley,
and 1900 hyacinths were raised dur
ing Janu Try. all in ground electrically
heated pnd under the artificial light
Of electric lamps. The operating ex-
pense of the electrical system was
found 70 be negligible. The most diff
ficult phase of the work is found in
supplying various types of plants with
the particular variety Of light which
they require, the lamps suitable for
roses, for example. being unsuited to
the development of carnations. There
are 300 so-called "electrO-horticultu
al" stations in Sweden, all of which
are carrying on experiments in the
artificial production of flowers and
vegetables.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-09
Fall Flowing Will Make
ENLARGED Crop of Oats

On average land oats will usually
make larger crop when the ground
is plowed shallow in the fall. One is
usually less likely to get good stand
of clover when it Is sown In oats on
fall or spring plowed ground unless
the land has been disked and rolled to
get 1t into firm seeded, than when
the land was only disked for oats.
The surface of the plowed ground will
dry out deeper than on disked land
and the clover seed is not so likely to
have as good moisture conditions for
terminating on plowed ground as on
disked ground. A good rolling will
overcome this tendency to q large ex-
tent however.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-09

Americans even though not one out of
a hundred can sing it all the way
through.
Unlike the Revolution and the Wan
of 1872, the Mexican war produced no
great outstanding song which has sur
vived to the present time. In the
main. this conflict saw the revival of
the favorite songs of the two previous
wars mentioned, although the soldiers,
both volunteer and regular, seized up
on the opportunity offered by various
events in the Mexican campaigns to
compose crude songs which were sung
to familiar tunes.
"No other war in our country's his
tory produced as many songs as the
Civil war;" says Lieutenant Dolph.
'The struggle lasted so long and the
feeling on each side was so intense
that hundreds of songs of all degrees
of merit appeared" Some of them
seemed destined to be sung as long as
the American nation lasts, for such
songs as Battle Cry Of Freedom"
Dixie Battle Hymn of the Repub-
iic," Bonnie Blue Flag" Maryland,
My Maryland" have become an essen
tial part of the American tradition
mot all Of these songs were sung by
the soldiers, however-nor were they
intended to be-" writes the author of
Sound orr MANY were wholly I'M
suitable for camp or marching songs,
or were too far removed from the In
innate details and stark realities of
q soldiers daily life. -. AS
rule, sentimental songs were not in
great favor. AS the first wave
of feeling passed, and men settled
down to the serious business of fight
ing, marching, sleeping in the mud and
rain, and living on sow belly and
beans, their attention was more and
more focused on the immediate details
of their daily life. 1t was then that
true soldier songs were born"
For it was at this time that the es.
sential character of the American SOL
der began to assert itself-his ability
to make jest about danger and hard
ship and to seek an emotional outlet
by singing satirically about himself
and his uncomfortable life. That uual-
ity became even more apparent in tile
songs of the Spanish-American war
and those of the Philippine insurrec-
ton. And it reached its full flower
in the World war. The fact that
"Hinky Dinky, Parley-Voo" is the out
standing survivor of the soldier songs
sung lover there" reflects as nothing
else can the spirit of the young man
who took part in the Great Adventure
of 1917-1S. And lest anyone deplore
the fact that the World war songs
breathed none of the crusading spirit,
let him consider these words of the au-
thor of Sound Off,: Perhaps. after
all, it is blessing that these soldier
songs of IT and Is were light, non
sensical, and even bawdy. AS long as
soldiers sing these kinds of songs they
do not become cynical and bitter. as
did the French, Germans and English.
The Americans came out of the war
with the ability quickly to regain their
normal perspective. No feeling of hate
rankles in their breasts today. This
fact alone is worth more than all the
war songs that have ever endured"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-09
IRIS 1920

| Bit of restI' His song was a hit!
The oldest American war ballad, ac-
cording to Lieutefqnt Dolph, was
"Lovewelrs Fight" written about 1725
in fcomInemoration OF Captain Love-
wells victory over the Indians at Pig
wacket on May tf that year. JUST
before the Revolution the Americans
frequently wrote ballads to express
their ideas about tea and taxation.
These ballads, however, were not near
ly so popular araeug the soldiers of
the Continental army as were songs
which dealt with events of the war
itself, such as the famous Battle of
the Kegs" mad Anthony Wayne"
Brave Paulding and the Spy"
Nearly all of these Revolutionary
songs were sung to tunes borrowed
from the British" says the author.
This was natural, for soldier songs
are generally sung to old, well-known
tunes, or to popular music of the day.
-. 1t was not until many years
after the Revolution that we began to
have a national music Of our own"
1t is interesting to note that the one
outstanding song of the Revolution
the one which has survived longest in
popular knowledge and which was the
basis for other songs during all our
wars. down TO and including the Civil
war, was written originally by a Brit
ish army surgeon This was the famous
yankee Doodle"
Here Is the story of its origin as
Lieutenant Dolph tells it: sin the sum-
mer or early fall of 1853, during the
French and Indian war, British army
surgeon, Doctor Richard Shuckburgh.
who had spent most of his time In
America. was encamped with General
Abercrombie on the old Van Rensse-
laer estate, near Albany. A number
of provincial troops were modifying
there. Their rustic appearance was so
ludicrous that Doctor Shuckburgh, who
was quite wit, wrote song about
them and set it to an old tune which
we now know as Yankee Doodle"
To the men who served in France
decade ago and sang of "Madelon."
it may be a surprise to know that
sMadelon" was soldiers sweetheart
long before the World war. In proof
of that consider this stanza from
soldier song which appeared in one
of the earliest American songsters and
was probably sung in the War of 1872:
Could you to battle march away
And leave me here complaining?
I'm sure t would break my heart to stay
When you are gone campaigning.
All. non, non, non!
Pauvre MadIlon
Could never leave her lover!
All, non, non, non!
Pauvre Madelon
Would go with you all the world over.
Although the War Of 1872 did not
produce many soldier songs-mainiy
because the army didn't have much to
boast about until near the end of the
war! But there is one exception TO
| this statement and it is lone genuine
| soldier song that will live as long AS
| the republic-The Star Spangled Ban
ner'" For this product of the inspira-
ton of volunteer soldier, Francis
Scott Key, has become our national
anthem and had thrilled millions of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-09
Silo Profit Is
in the Feeding
Dairy Farms and Live Stock
Feeders Declare Silage
Is Essential.

The proof of the silo profit is In the
feeding. Wisconsin has proved the
economy of this. If the value of ST.
lage In the live stock ration was
known all over this land as well as 1t
Is in this state, where there Is one
silo to every 80 head of cattle, there
woulf be 100000 silos built In
America in the next three years. All
the evidence is in favor Of this feed
as a profit-bringing, milk-making and
bodybuilding ration.
Corn silage can be grown and put
into the silo for less than Sc ton.
Some reports set the cost figures as
low as So a ton. This Is crediting the
corn as being worth about "a cents a
bushel.
Value of SiIage.
Experts in different states claim
that when butterfat is selling for 40
cents a pound, corn silage will bring
the dairy farmer $40 per ton. and
when fat steers are selling from 50 to
$40 per hundredweight, corn silage is
worth from ST to So per ton. The own
er of silo with fair yield of crop
can receive a value from his corn
made into silage of $40 to $50 an acre
when fed to steers and 500 when fed
to good dairy cows.
1t has been proved that, with dairy
animals, the feeding Of silage saves
from to Is cents on the cost of pro-
ducing pound of butter, and from
80 to 80 cents on producing 100 pounds
Of milk. For beef production the saw
ing produced by silage is about 81 per
100 pounds of gain.
1t is true that the horse is decreas-
ing in numbers, but the cattle census
must be kept up and will be kept up
by the steady demand for milk and
meat. 1t Is probable that the values
placed upon silage as given above will
be considered too low before next
spring.
Make Study of SiIo.
1t is just the time to make study
of their value and economy, watching
the feeding through the winter and
letting the facts stand as proof that
thousands more should be set to work
making money for stockmen. Expert
ment stations, dairy farms and live
stock feeders all over the United
States have proved that the silo is OF
highest Importance in the economic
production of stock and stock prod
ucts. The half-million progressive
stock farmers who are using silos ind
them indispensable. For many years
we have urged the trial of the silo
as money maker.-Wisconsin Agri-
culturist.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-09
Insect Eights Insect

Two hundred beetles were sent from
Melrose to Seattle, WASH. to act as
a set of shock troops against great
army of caterpillars. They were re-
leased in a section of Seattle where
the hordes of caterpillars, swarming
on the tracks, caused a street car to
slide down hill The beetles. original
ly imported from Europe in 1905. are
said to be hereditary enemies of the
caterpillars.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-09
Old Superstition

During the Middle ages the signs of
the zodiac were supposed to influence
human life and we've distributed to
different parts of the human body.
Disease was supposedly cured by the
aid of the zodiacal power presiding
over that part of the body. The do
minion of the moon over the body as
she passes through the II signs of the
zodiac is as follows: Aries, head and
face (ram) Taurus, neck and throat
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-09

Chelr regiments, what they
had to eat and the shelter, or lack of
it, in which they slept, as well as any
number of other details of their every
day life.
In this respect the soldiers of the
American army, ever since there was
such an institution, have been no diff
ferent from the soldiers of other ma
tiOns. What is typical American SOL
dier song? The answer is: there is
no such thing! The type of song that
was popular among our soldiers of one
period, the soldiers of another war
would scOrn to sing. With but few
exceptions, perhaps, the songs which
were sung during one war are all but
forgotten by the time another war
comes along. For the soldier song is
one of the most ephemeral things in
the world.
/. Fortunately for our national ballad
ry, there has recently been collected
in one volume the greater part of our
soldier songs "from Yankee Doodle TO
Farley Voo." which are published un-
der the title of Sound Off" by the
Cosmopolitan Book corporation of New
York. The collector of these songs is
Lieut.. Edward Arthur Dolph of the
United States Military academy at
West Point and two brother officers
on the academy staff have co-operated
with him in producing piece of work
which, aside from its inherent inter-
est, has great historic value. They
are Lieut.. Philip Egner, teacher of
music, who arranged the music for
many of the songs in the book, and
Lieut.. Lawrence Schick, instructor in
drawing, who made the Illustrations.
In the foreword to the book, Peter
B. Kyne, a veteran of the Spanish
American and World wars, makes the
following comment: "a soldier song is,
essentially, song of the people. Its
melody must be simple. the words
either sad or humorous, and it must
have resounding chorus in which
the tOne-deaf can join without fear
of discovery. 1t is for this reason that
the most popular song of the Wort!
war was All We Do Is Sign the Pay
Roll sung to the tune of JOHN
Browns Body Then. too, it lent it
self readily to improvisation. re-
member a chief cook / had. He had
q believing baritone and was one of
the funniest men | ever knew. One
day, after having passed through three
British rest camps. this fellow suddenly
rOared forth: All we do is go to rest
camps A joyous shout greeted this
opening line. The men knew instantly
what was coming and with mighty
vigor, indeed. did they come in on the
asst line: And we never get a, id