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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-07
FRIEND
OF SLAIN MANS
WIDOW HUNTED
Solution Believed Near ir
Chicago Murder; Young
Woman Disappears.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. IA maze Of
fantastic end erotic facts pertaining
to murder Of a Saddle and Cycle
Club bartender in the clubs desert
ed Lake Shore building led weary
investigators today to a three-state
hue and cry after Mrs. Ellen Billy
Edlin, friend of the slain mans
widow.
Belief that the most involved
murder mystery since the Staying of
Rheta Gardner Wynekoop was near
solution was expressed by Lieut..
Otto Erlanson of the police homi-
eide squad.
"One arrest" he said, will emo
this case"
The statement did not mean, he
said. that slim and attractive Mrs.
Edlin, inseparable friend of "a
year-old Mrs. Straub, will be &C
cused Of Straub's death.
But she knows who should be &C
cused," Lieut.. Erlanson asserted.
The murder, which has led police
to a half dozen homes on the Tich
Gold Coast, occurred some time be-
tween midnight and 2 a. m. of Sun
day.
Mrs. Straub and Gus Schwartz,
tall and muscular old Waterman,
found Straub dead in a basement
closet, with sever bullet wounds in
his stomach and back. His billfold,
which supposedly had contained
about $50, was empty by his side.
Mrs. Straub told police she ar
rived at the club after 2 a. m.
Schwartz said the body was found
before 1:45. Police were not notified
until $50.
Police learned Straub had a large
income from a combination Of two
jobs. He carried $4,000 worth of
double indemnity life insurance pay
able to his wife.
Explaining amorous and erotic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-07
FLOOD WATERS
WRECK COAST
200 Long Beach Homes Are
Inundated; Residents
Take to Boats.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
LONG BEACH, Cal, Feb. T.
Flood waters slowly receded today
from a 15-block residential area
deluged by heavy rains that swept
across southern California from the
tropical Pacific.
More than 200 Long Beach homes
were inundated, some six feet deep
as the storm dumped more than
an inch of water into drainage syS-
TENS within three hours.
Residents took to rowboats when
the waters, flooding front lawns
crept under doors and kept rising
Mrs. Florence Washburn, who gave
birth to a son while a physician
vainly sought to reach her home n
a boat, was bundled into a skif ant
rowed to safety with her newborn
No estimate of property damage
was available.
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poems, letters and books in her
luxuriously furnished apartment, the
dry-eyed widow admitted deflantly
that she was "passionately fond" OF
Mrs. Edlin, whom she called Billy.
She said she was with Billy Satur-
day evening and until 2 o'clock
Sunday morning. playing bridge
with two women friends. Police took
Mrs. Edlin into custody but later
released her.
The investigators marked time
almost two days before a taxi driver
revealed yesterday that he drove q
woman to the entrance of the
Saddle ard Cycle grounds at about
1870 a. m. Sunday. The woman
walked into the grounds, he said
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EM
Soo-Lorstta Lee. Songs OBS.
NATIONAL CONGRESS q Parents and
Teachers program tSBCl WEAF.
Chico Spanish Revus tNBcl
4is-DorS Lorraine CHS.
Three scanps lSBc) VIZ
$50 sugar anc Bunnv lNBCl WEAF.
Singing LADY fEBCb VIZ.
Ass-Feature Chs.
willie Bryant Jrs' orchestra CNBcl
5.o0-Bgce Rogers fcBsl wABc.
NeEst Cugats orchestra NBCl
F~erdInandos orchestra CNBCl WIZ.
sls- SElppF' fCBSl WBBM.
AmeTican Eoeat.onsl Association
sso-FTank Daley orchestra lcBS.
News. songs tNBCl NEAF.
Meas. bassO and orchestra CSBCl
ss5-OrEsnlst fCBsl.
L0ael Thomas EBCl WIZ.
szetch. Billy Bachelor tNBcl
s.oo-M1rt and Margs ocBs) wABc.
hal Kemps orchestra tNBCl
sI5-jsSr Plain BIZ CHS wABc.
Music tNBCI HEAF.
Gems OF Melody GBCl WIZ.
e.s0-hicE Lucas. songs Chs WABC.
Mole Minstrel Show fNBCl WEAF.
Buck Rogers CHS WBBM.
6.f@Ruth Etting and REQ Nichols or
ches.ra fSBCJ WIZ.
ECaEe Garter lCBSt WABC.
Asll- HOUR OF CNarm MAbE.
Rudy Vailee fNBCy WEAF.
7-i@u s. and World Affairs CNBc)
7.so-Tsmpls OF Song CNBcl WIZ.
EdWin c. Hill fCBSI WABC.
800 show Boat fNBCJ WEAF
Death Valley Days fNBCl WIZ.
Walter OKeefe. Ted Husing. Glen
Grays orchestra CHS WABC.
Music Magic fEBCt WIZ.
s-oo-Paul Nhlteman'S Music Hail (NBCl
WEAF.
MeIodic Strings CNBC) WIZ.
es0-Economics IN a Changing Social
order iEBCI WIZ.
Leth Stevens Harmonies (CBSl
s45-V0ice OF the Crusader (CBSl WABC.
i0.00-John B. Kennedy tNBCB WEAF.
Little JACK Little 2 orchestra
fCBSi WABC.
Larry Siry's orchestra fNBC) WIZ.
Crawford fNBCl WEAF.
l0.so-Cab C~alloway's orchestra CCBSl
WABC.
Eddie Duchin's orchestra CNBCl
WEAF.
Marti MlohePs orchestra CNBc)
ii.00-Henry- Kings orchestra (cBS)
Geo. Olsen's orchestra NBCD WIZ.
II .3o-DancinE in VIZ Cities (NBCl
Beecher's orchestra (CBSl wABC.
Reichman's orchestra lNBCl WEAF.
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HIGH SPOTS OF THURSDAY
NIGHTS PROGRAMS

6:45-NBC (WJZ)-Ruth Etting and
Red Nichols orchestra.
REORGANIZATION of Charm"
NBC CWEAF)-Vallee's orches-
ira; Guests.
7:SOAColumbia-Edwin c. Hill.
s:oO-NBC CWEAF)-Show Boat.
NBC CWJz)-Death Valley
Days.
S:30AColumbia-Fred warnings
P-ennsylvanians.
e:oo-NBC (WEAF)-Paul White
mans Music Hall.
Io:3o-Columbia-Cab Calloway's or
cheStra.
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Fishing the Air

RAYMOND Leslie Buell.. president Of the
Foreign Policy Association. will discuss
World Trade and Tariffs when he ap-
on The United States and World Affairs"
Thursday. at 7:l5 p. m, over an NBC-
WIZ network
Phi Spitalny and his al-feminine or
cheStra and vocal ensemble will present
another Hour of Charm" program over
WFBM and the Columbia network
Thursday, from Z to 1880 D. m.
Lee H. Bristol. prominent advertising
expert, will be the guest speaker with
Edwin C. Hill on the Forum OF Liberty,
program to be broadcast over WFBM and
the Columbia network Thursday, from
1880 to 8 p. n.
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FEB. Z. 1895

because she bought a pint Of liquor.
They thought she resembled Mrs.
Edlin, but were not - positive as
Colling.
When police again sought Mrs.
Edlin she had disappeared-moved
from her apartment.
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stayed about Is minutes and
emerged running and breathless.
The driver. Kenneth Colling, said
his fare was not Mrs. Straub, but
resembled Mrs. Edlin. He took her
to a drug store. Clerks in the
pharmacy remembered the woman
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The true story Of a Harvard valedic.
torian, who took a Job as a mucker IN Q
Nevada mining camp, will be told by the
Old Ranger in the Death Valley Days pro-
gram Thursday at 8 p. m. over WliW
and an NBC network.
Fred Warnings Pennsylvanians, abetted
by Kay Thompson, Stella and her fel-
lows and the girls glee club, will intro
duce songs from Dixie Lees new picture,
Love in Bloom" in their broadcast over
WFBM and the Columbia network from
$3.50 to $3.50 D. M, Thursday.
'Public Works" will be the subject IN
der discussion on the Economics in a
Changing Social order series Thursday at
$50 d. m, over an NBC network.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-07
La Guardia,s Brother Dead

By United Press
TRENTON, N. j., Feb. Rich
ard D. La Guardia, .49, brother Of
Mayor Fiorella La Guardia of New
York City, died yesterday of a heart
attack. He had been educationa,
welfare director at New Jersey Stats
Prison Is years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-07
MONEY-BACk
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Do not confuse Glendage with other
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GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION OR
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gland remedy. 30-day treatment, So,
at the Hook Drug CO.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-07
NRA MAY Give
INDUSTRY RIGHT
OF SELF-RULE
New Deal Leaders Confer
With Roosevelt on
Recovery Act.
81 UHnsdPrm

~ IHifrd Press
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7-Legisla-
ton Tor continuation OF NRA for
Two years viii veer sharply toward
INDUSTRY plan for self-government,
the United Press learned today.
HE legislation. 20 be submitted
soon 10 Congress. has been prepared
rs a transitional step between the
original theory OF government sup
ervlSion Of industry and the desire
Of industry for a sef-regulatory
system.
General features OF the Admins
tratiOn NRA program we're learned
after Congressional leaders. includ-
Ing Senator Joseph T. Robinson ID,
Ark. Rep. Joseph Byrns. ID.
Tenn; Senator Pat Harrison. ID,
Mss, and Senator Robert +. Wag-
ner ID, y. y. conferred with Pres
ident Roosevelt at the White House.
Donald r. Richberg, Recovery
CO-OrdinatOr, under fire from the
Amedican Federation Of Labor,
played p leading part in reShaping
Of Mr., It was learned.
Presidential Message Due
Senator Robinson, Senate major
ity leader. said a presidential mes
sage on the NRA program would be
forthcoming within a few days.
The act creating the NRA expires
June IS. and will be renewed from
that date, according 20 Administra-
ton plans.
Provisions for the program in
elude:
1. Retention OF control OF unfair
methods OF competition.
2. Price-hxing will be prohibited,
with exceptions in which tse Ma
tional Industry Recovery Board will
be granted wider power Of discrim-
nation.
Broader Powers for NIRB
3. Industries with codes which
have worked satisfactorily will be
enabled to continue them; indus
tries for which codes have been
found unavoidable still be permitted
20 abandon them.
4. Granting Of broader powers to
the NIRB designed 20 permit great
er ~ieNbility IN recovery act ad-
ministration.
5. Provisions for prohibition. in
certain circumstances, Of loss
leader" sales. or sales at less han
cost OF production.
8. Control of production will be
limited 10 natural resource indus
tries.
Z. Section IA, guaranteeing labor
the right Of collective bargaining,
Will be continued.
8. Provisions for imposing codes
Of fair competition, but only in a
limited sense.
Child Labor Under Fire
9. The licensing. permitted to
lapse IN teh original National In
dustrial Recovery Act will not be
included in the new act.
IL is possible specific prohibit
tons against use of child labor Will
be written into the revised act.
The new NRA legislation, If sent
promptly to Congress, would add to
the controversy already involving
the Administrations broad recovery
program. Organized labor. con-
tending the NRA has failed TO re-
duce unemployment, is backing the
SO-hour work week bills with out
spoken vigor and belligerence. 1t
wants a 30-hOur week provision
written into any continuation Of
NRA-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-07
FRIDAY

FRIDAY
A. N.
5.3O-Top o. me Morning.
6:0O-The Nations Family Prayer period.
6.l5-Morning Devotion.
6.30-Rhythm testers.
6.45-Rex Griffith. tenor, and orchestra,
7.OO-Bradley Kincaid (NBCl.
T.15-Donhall trio (NBCl.
T:30-Cheerio fNBC).
s:0o-Joe Emerson. hymns Of al
churches.
s.ls-Health talk-Dr. Wilzbach.
s.3O-Nora Beck Thumann, contralto.
S:45-The Jacksons-comedy.
9.O0-Earl Wilke-vocalist.
slO-McCormick Fiddlers.
9:l5-Clara, Lu n EN- (NBCl.
s:3O-Livestock reports.
e.40-News flashes.
e:4s-Betty Crocker-Cooking talk fNBC).
10. 00-MUsic Appreciation hour lNBCl.
II .00-Mary Alcott vocalist.
1l:l5-Market and river reports.
IL :20-Livestock reports.
ll:3O-Cousin Bob & his orchestra-Ubiko
L: oo-NoonsThe National Farm and
Home hour (NBC).
l2:3O-Johnnie Burkarth's dance orchestra.
I2:45-Ben Pollack's dance orchestra.
IL. 50-Home Loan talk.
2:00-Vic 81 SADIE (NBC).
2.l5-Ma Perkins (NBCl.
2:30-United States Marine band fNBC) .
s:00-Mary Elizabeth Woods, soprano;
John Barker, baritone.
3:15-Betty e. Bob-drama.
3:30-Charlie Kent and his orchestra.
3.45-Life Of Mary Sothern.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-07
BYRD'S WIFE SAILS
FOR HAPPY REUNION
Leaves for New Zealand Port to Join
Returning Explorer.

By United Press
LOS ANGELES, Feb. IA trans
Pacific steamer today narrowed the
miles that for 16 months have sepa-
rated Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd
and his wife, Mrs. Marie Ames
Byrd.
Radiant at prospects of an early
reunion with her famed husband,
Mrs. Byrd embarked on the Mari
posa at San Pedro last night for
Dunedin, New Zealand, where Ad-
miral Byrd will end his long visit to
the Antarctic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-07
SEVEk.YEAR
EN- D E D

The itch (scabies) is highly ON
t~agiOus, if not treated it will continue
for life. 1t is not a blood disease, but
is caused by a. itch-mite, which bur-
rows and forms torturous galleries
within the skin
The itch-mite spreads rapidly and
Is immune to ordinary treatment. The
PsOric institute has perfected a simple
treatment called EAS0RA that kills the
itch-mite almost instantly, and rids
you of you trouble in three days.
Get complete EXS0RA treatment at
once at
EM~N2 Dependable Drug
VWAAA Stores
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indianapolis Power and Light Compan
THURSDAY

indianapolis Power and Light Company
P. II
4~-0O-Loretta Lee fCBSl.
4l5-Tea Times Tunes
4-f5-Syrup Of Figs program (CBS).
5-0O-NleWing the news.
| 5l5-Eddle and JACK
5-30-Butler University program.
5.45-Mnlton Charles. organist (CBs).
6:0O-Indianapolls Chamber Of Commerce
s~,O5-sketches in Melody.
6.l5-Federal Housing Administrator
speaker.
6-2o-Legislature news.
6-30-Buck Rogers (CBSl.
6-45-PianO Twins.
7.OO-Hour Of Charm fCBsl.
7-30-Liberty Forum (CBS).
S-00-CaraVan fCBS).
s.sO-Waring's Pennsylvanians CCBs).
9.30-Al Feeney's sports talk.
9.f5-Tin Pan Alley.
lO.OO-Myrt and MaTge (CBSl.
IO:I5-Little Jack Little orchestra CCBS)
l0.30-Cab Galloway orchestra (CBSl.
l0.45-TaIly-ho Gu orchestra.
1i.OO-Herbie Kaye orchestra (CBSl.
Il-30-LeOn Navarro orchestra (CBS).
1900 Midnight-Sign OF.
FRIDAY
6.sO-Chuck wagon.
7-0O-Early Birds.
S.OO-Dear Columbia fCBSl.
s.45-Carla Romano (CBSl.
9-0O-NeWs (CBSl.
9.05-Bluebirds (CBSl.
9.l5-PerSonality Pointers tCBSl.
9-30-Jack Fulton orchestra lCBSl.
9.45-Circle melodies.
fO-O0-COoking ClOse-ups (CBSl.
lO.i5-United States Army band CCBS).
10. s5-ChicO DiVerdi orchestra.
lI.00-Voice Of Experience tCBS).
| ll.l5-The Gumps tCBSl.
11-20-Hoosier Farm Circle.
y -0O-Noon-George Hall orchestra (CBS)
P NJ.
I2.I5-Circle melodies.
Il. sO-Little Jack Little (CBS).
II. Kennedy with Art Kassel or
chestra fCBS).
1.0O-Little French Princess (CBSl.
1.15-Romance Of Helen Trent (CBSl.
1.30-American School OF the Air lCBS)
2-00-Ambassador of Melody.
2.l5-Rhythm Bandbox (CBS).
1.30-Grab Bag fCBSl.
3.O0-Pete WOolery orchestra gCBSl.
3.l5-Pro Arte string quartet CCBS).
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THURSDAY
4.l5-Three x Sisters (NBCl.
4:30-Sugar and Bunny NBC).
f.45-EmplOyment talk.
4.5O-Willie Bryant'S orchestra (NBCl.
5-O0-MuSlcal Interlude.
5-05-The Clock Turns Back.
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s.I0-Headiines.
5.iNThe Thrill Hunters.
520-Cecil and Sally.
535@Malv Small tNBCl.
6.0O-Eb and zeb.
6.l@Neima Palman.
e30-Man About Town
7.0O-The Hawk.
1910 be announced.
s.o0-capt. Henry's show Goat (EBC).
e.O0-Euslcai Cocktail.
e-05-Len Rilev's Sport Album.
i6.66-Highlishts Of the General Assembly.
l0.i5@Jsck Bergers orchestra lEBCL.
u. 3o-Eddie Duchin's orchestra lNBCl.
ll-oe-Eenry Kings orchestra 2
I2.00-ALcnight-Sign of.
FRIDAY
7 6.3O-Morning devotions.
6-f5-Tcmple OF the Air.
7.O0@Tunefui Tick TOcks.
T30-Musical clock.
s.O0-Breakfast club CNBC).
Ss5-S0O on the Air.
s.OO-Josephine Gibson NBC).
e.i5-Hazel Arth fNBCD.
8 5O-Today IN the Home.
10 AppTeciatlon hour tNBCJ.
ii:i5-Indiana Association Of Workers for
II. so-FaTm and Home hour NBO.
Il .30-Horacio Zito's orchestra NBC).
Il .z5-HappY Long.
l-0O-Walter Hickman.
i.3O-Harvest Of Song lNBC).
l.45-Trving Kennedy (NBC).
2.OO-American melodies.
2i5-Ma Perkins lNBCJ.
23O-Cecil and Sally.
2.f5-Kay Foster fNBCl.
3.OO-Woman's Radio review NBC).
3.3O-Bennett sisters tNBCl.
3.45-Do You Believe in GhostsF
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THURSDAY
4:OO-Solos for Five.
4i5-CoI. Cookies Flying Corps.
4.3O-Singing Lady (NBC).
4.45-Jack Armstrong.
5.OO-The Norsemen-male quartet.
5:i5-Bachelor Of Song.
5.30-Bob Newhall.
5:45-Lowell Thomas (NBC).
6.OO-Paul Persons dance orchestra.
s.l5-Lun & hbner, comedy team.
s.3O-Smilin' Ed Mcconnell.
6:45-Unbroken Melodies orchestra and
Vocalists. u.
7.OO-Rudy Vallee's orchestra and Guest
Artist fNBC).
s.O0-Death Valley Days NBC).
s.30-Unsolved Mysteries.
9:OO-Paul Whiteman Music Hall CNBC).
Ia. OO-News flashes.
1O.O5-Salute TO the Cities.
10. 3O-Las Trovadores tNBC).
li.OO-Henry Kings orchestra (NBC).
li:3O-Ben Pollack's dance orchestra.
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Tonight's Radio Excursion

I7:oO-y.A7ight-Mel snyder's dance or.
-hestra.
A. n.
Il :s0-Moon River. organ and poems.
LOOSEN of.
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THURSDAY

4.15-Three x Sisters NBCl.
4.30-Sugar and sunni tNBC).
4.45-Employment talk.
45O-WilIie Bryant's orchestra CNBCl.
5-OO-MuSical Interlude.
5-O5-The Clock Turns Back.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-03-29

During the last few years thousands
OF acres OF good crop and pasture land
have been made more profitable simply
by holding and diverting flood and run
off water from higher areas, which be-
fore had been lost.
AS a result of a program of flood
irrigation carried on by the Montana
extension service through county agents
and the irrigation department station,
O.. w. MonSon, extension irrigation and
drainage specialist, tells us that, with
cut negotiating a single loan or asking
any financial help whatsoever. farmers
have built or are constructing more
than 100 flood irrigation projects on
100 different Montana farms scattered
through the central and eastern part
of the state.
From 10 to 100 acres will be irrigated
by each project and will produce, be-
sides eatables for the farmers family,
tons of feed for his livestock. More
than 1000 acres were surveyed in 1884.
Many of these projects involve build
ing earth dams by means of which
water from melting snow in the spring
will be stored for use in irrigation of
crops or as a source of water for live
stock later in the season, says Monson.
For some projects the natural flow of
the creek is sufficient to supply ir-
rigation needs but they require dams
which will divert the amount needed
from the creek or coulee.
This type of dam, he explains, calls
for a different kind of construction
from the storage dam but may be built
satisfactorily by farm labor. The diff
ference between these two types of dam
is that the storage dam is not designed
to withstand any overflow, while a di-
version dam may allow excess water
to pass wei it without danger of wash
ing out. In addition to the dam to
divert water from the creek, this type
of project requires construction of a
system of contour bitches to distribute
water uniformly over the land.
Several projects did not provide a
good reservoir site nor was there a
steady flowing creek conveniently near.
so water is conserved by using the soil
itself as the reservoir, according to the
specialist. This is done by building a
series of contour bikes over the field
to retain water from melting SHOWS un-
til frost goes out of the ground, when
the water will be absorbed by the soil
and thus later made available for grow
ing crops. A fairly heavy soil is cap
able of absorbing the equivalent Of a
two-inch rainfall per foot depth Of soil.
A six-foot depth of soil therefore has a
storage capacity of an acre-foot OF
water for each acre of land or, for a
quarter section of land, the storage
would be 100 acre feet.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-03-29

Natural rainfall during the growing
season is rarely enough in Montana
to fill this large soil reservoir. Never
theless, a great deal of water is allow
ed to drain away from fields into creeks
and coulees and out of the country.
Without special provision to hold pre-
cipitation on the land melting SHOWS
of early spring, when the ground is
frozen, and heavy cloudbursts of the
summer will not be absorbed by the
soil. A system of bikes will not only
prevent loss and waste of water which
falls directly on the field, as rain or
snow, but catches runoff from other
fields and waste lands. In this way the
effective rainfall on cropped lands
may in many cases be doubled.
Such small scale irrigation develop
ment, while inexpensive, has proved to
be very profitable, Monson says. A few
days work during the slack season in
preparing to control and regulate the
flood waters has paid literally, in the
opinion of farmers who have construct
ed such projects.
This type of farm improvement de-
velops ingenuity and encourages the in
dependence of the farmer. 1t offers
a helpful, valuable way out for many
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farm enterprises in these times OF

farm enterprises in these times OF
stress.
Land development is dependent on
water development. That much land
is marginal because OF lack of rainfall
has been definitely shown the last few
years. Nature cannot always be de-
pended on to supply moisture at such
times and in such quantities as to in
sure the optimum growth of crops. Con-
servation of flood water for irrigation
is a method of supplementing insult
ficient rainfall and %insuring crops each
year on land that can be watered.
In his report on extension work IN
the field in 1884, Monson shows the
following contour bikes, storage reser-
voirs, bitches, diversion dams and dikes,
reconnaissance surveys, storage dams,
pumping plants, repairs to earth dams
or diversion bitches.
Richland county, 1926 acres; Wibaux,
1877; Dawson, AIS; Fergus, 652; Carter,
1877; McCone, los; Prairie, 125; Still
water, 500. It addition stock reservoirs
were developed in McCone county.
Continued development Of flood IT.
rigation projects in Montana will re-
suit in greater stability o. u agr1-
culture, a goal to which all farmers
are striving, says Monson. .
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-03-29
N. P. Plans Through
Train to Gardiner

Heaviest passenger traffic through
the northwest in a number Of years is
predicted by J. c. Petres, travelling pas
senger agent for the Northern Paclflc
railway, visitor in Missoula from Hell
ena.
Mr.. Petres said that for the first time
since 1880 the Comet. an al-Pullman
train, would be operated between Chi
cage and Gardiner. The train, he de-
clared, would be air conditioned.
The Northern Pacific has received
the heaviest bookings for rail traVel
to Gardiner this year from chicago
that it has had in many years. Mr.
FetreS said.
Mr.. PetreS said that is an indication
that passenger traffic throughout the
Pacific northwest will be much heaVler
this year than usual.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-03-29
Warden and Rowe
End Terms April l

The terms of three state officials eX-
pire April l..
The officers are: Chairman O. S.
Warden of Great Falls, highway COM
mission; Commissioner J. H. Rowe OF
Butte, highway commission, and Chair
man w. P. Sullivan of Square Butte,
fish and game commission.