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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
Drouth-Proof Farms by
Practical Use of Power

Chicago. "Drouth-proo FARMS
can be made a practical reality in
the future by the Harvesting OF
cheaply generated diesel power to
pump water to parched areas, &C.
cording to Ralph Hemphill, presi-
dent of system of diesel schools
in an address here before a con-
ference of engineers.
Mr.. Hemphill urged the adoption
by the federal government of a
program to finance the purchase
by farmers in the "dust BOWL of
small diesel engine units and the
installation of adequate wells and
pumping facilities.
"The tragedy of drouth is not
lack of water, but lack of the means
of obtaining it," he said. water
flows underground. 1t passes farm
steads in streams and creeks, vet
crops perish. At a cost of but a
few cents per acre, a diesel engine
can provide water for sections of
stricken farms.
by this means complete loss OF
crops can be obviated and the
average farmer can be enabled to
raise at least enough to feed him.
self and family and provide fodder
for his stock"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09

Neck
seeply santed fell awav on
hoio on and nothing at the
was ne going to have to stand while chopped
The foreman had Harry down to the
edge lie looked to
found nothing but the chimney was SQUARE with
@ and ne knew the wouldn't slide
Harry toward the edge. ~ S
sharp corners of the chimney Harry series short
Weent was on the rope-and that
either In fact pretty old Harry wasn't
forehead beads before Harry could ms
them off BY the time roof he WAS
ike leaf But the o
All at Once Things Began to Go Wrong
The gutter full of depend on that rne
10 hd m he ever slipped the edge chopped place
ut anu stanong on the gutter began
went all Suddenly gutter
ne rope than ne heard the foreman warning Don't move
NY DGn n mDv we get another THE EDGE CHIN
Harry looked at the face" he SAYS "was
Ts white Looked down the ground eight
ayzed and felt couldn't any longer The
leg oased against the gutter began to get rotten
could see the old nowbady holding only
and relieve my numb leg but have the strength ~
began to hear voices below collected the streo
had been freely my underwear felt az M @
slight jars as the strands of the o ii
as another and could the stomach
as came out But at last the another Te
and slid it to ~ 'pe i"eS n'aoe
But still hadn't
Too Frightened to Put Rope Around His Was.
They yelled to Harry too
weak ana TOO frightened he
HIS NECK AND then b r S below So
ne DID ns best to relieve the they hauled him choking
HsEry no torture than that trip nm
II again Tbev cot him S ne rather be shot than through
Mnen ne arrived And volunteer stunts?
o-wSUssryee
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
Everyone Can Be Hypuot;z.d

Practically everyone can be hyp
Noticed, although some succumb
much more readily than others.
states writer in the Los Angeles
Times. Because a person can be
easily hypnotized does no. imply
that he is of low mentality, or has
weak will. Instead, he seems to
nave the ability to fix, to concen-
trate the attention upon a parti-
GUAR point. Scatter-brained" per-
sons, those whose minds are con-
tinually wandering, or jumping
from one problem to another, are
usually hard to hypnotic.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
SO Urban Home Building
Already Leads az Total

Observation-Disclosures Of city
homes in the United States in the
first seven months Of 1885 already
exceeds the entire volume of urban
home building for 1885, according
to the forthcoming Septembe- issue
OF The Federal Home Loan Bank
Review" The report is based on
building permit reports from all
cities of 10000 or more population,
compiled by the bureau Of labor
statistics.
The volume of residential build
ing activity, already at its highest
point in June since 1929, rose still
further in July to 37.9 per cent of
the 1876 index level. The number
OF dwellings authorized in July was
1884 per cent greater than in July,
1885. Total cost of this construction
exceeded the 1885 total by 1928 per
cent.
While smaller homes of the one
and two-family class continued to
predominant, representing ST per
cent OF the total number of July per-
mits, the 40 per cent of multi-family
homes is the highest figure for this
type OF dwelling recorded in recent
years. The latter class of home led
all other residential building in New
York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois,
South Carolina. Kentucky, Tonnes
see and Oklahoma.
AS in June, New York remained
far in the lead in the number of
dwellings authorized during July.
California continued in second
place, followed by Ohio, Mas
sachusetts and Illinois in tina. order.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
Survey Shows Accident
Toll High on Farms

New York.-Farming ranges first
as hazardous occupation with the
fatal accidents averaging 4,400 an
nually, a survey by the Country
Life magazine reveals.
''In a factory" the farm publica-
ton says, "where machines are in
spected regularly and carefully, &C
cidents are relatively few. In al
most every occupation accidents
are foreseen and forestalled. But
recognizing and eliminating poten-
tial accident hazards in farming is
far more of job because of their
wide variety and their deceptive
commonplacenesS.
"There are three major and fire.
quent causes of farm accidents:
Poor repair of farm buildings, care
less handling of live stock and i'm
proper use of farm equipment. And
the sad part about all thee acct
dents is that they could easily be
prevented"
1t is the little things that cause
the m ost tragedy - loose floor
boards, broken stair treads, defec-
tive stepladders, loose matches, i'm
properly marked poisons, improper
use of kerosene and gasoline, not
keeping a close eye on the bull in
the pasture lot, and so forth, the
magazine says.
And then, of course, there's fire,
which last year cost farms and
rural towns a quarter of billion
dollars.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
Hunter for Zoo Finds
Capturing Easiest Task

st. Louis.-Capturin., a wild ami
NAL Is not so difficult, according to
Christoph Schulz, veteran East Az
rican hunter, who delivered q con-
signment of animals to the local
zoo.
But animals are hard to keep and
deliver after capture, Schulz SAYS
In support of this he pointed ont
that giraffe, delivered here. was
separated from a herd and roped
from horse in about five minutes.
After the capture, however. it was
necessary to move the animal 300
miles overland from East Africa,
place it on a ship for a voyage of
thirty-seven days TO Boston, after
which the beast still faced a fifteen
day quarantine.
And despite the long journey the
animals must be delivered in good
health or they will not be accepted.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
Trial for Crimes Common
Centuries Ago.

Washington, D. C.-"Woof, wool"
was all the prisoner could say for
himself in a recent sensational trial.
For the prisoner was a do.,.
The trial Of animals for murder
and mayhem was fairly common
several centuries ago." says a bull
letin from the Washington, D. c.,
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic society. primitive civil
izations assumed that animals we're
mans equals in intelligence and
moral responsibility, and held them
equally liable before the law. To-
day it is more usual to file suits
against owners instead of their ami
NAL property.
European countries have a CEN
turtles long record of hailing ami
mails into court. Rumor ha3 it that
storks were brought to punishment
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
OILLINGER HAUNTS
STILL ATTRACT BIG
CROWDS OF CURIOUS
Bandits Father Il Now "Cura.
tor" of Relics of
Cangster.

| Mooresville, Ind.-Although two
years have passed since John Dill
fingers crime career ended, the
desperado's name is still worth
few dimes.
It was July %, 1894, that federal
agents finally caught up with the
notorious bank robber and gang
leader and dropped him in front
of the Biograph theatre in Chicago.
But back here in his home town,
and throughout the Middle West,
there's interest enough in his ex-
ploits so that those who were init
mately associated with him An
wrangle from the curious q few
cents for look at some of his me-
mentos, brief talk concerning his
career or a picture postcard of the
Dillinger home.
His seventy-two-ye father,
John Dillinger, ST., has gone to
Little Bohemia to become "cura-
tor" Of the Dillinger museum estab-
lished by Emil Wanatha, proprietor
of the lodge near Mercer, Wis,
where the Dillinger gangsters shot
themselves out of a federal trap
in April, 1884.
Room Fitted UP.
There Wanatka has fitted up a
room filed with pictures and news
paper clippings of the Little Bo-
hemia battle and also the clothing,
guns and ammunition left behind
by the gangsters. He also has the
revolver and bullet-proof vest worn
by w. Carter Baum, one of the fed
eral agents shot and killed as the
gang fed.
Wanatka told a recent Indiana
visitor: "Old man Dillinger was
tired of carnival life, so 1 thought
I'd just bring him up here for the
remainder of the summer and make
him curator of the museum"
The elder Dillinger has been trav-
cling about with carnivals since his
sons death, making appearances at
"crime exhibits"
At Evansville, Ind, Evelyn Ere
Ghetto, the gangster's girl friend, is
appearing with a carnival company.
She was released recently from the
federal prison at Milan, Mich,
where she served year for harbor-
ing Dillinger She answers ques-
tons of those who enter the "crirne
exhibit"
At the drug store here tourists
can purchase postcards of the Dill
linger homestead, little white
farmhouse on the outskirts of the
town.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09

in 666. In the Fifteenth century
especially, prosecutions by tn e
score were brought against rats.
insects, and domestic animals.
1T was in France, Switzerland
and Germany that beasts most fire.
quently locked horns with the law.
and occasionally in Italy and Bel
GUM. History tells of trials also
In Spain, Russia, Denmark, Eng
land, and Scotland. Even at that.
Is is doubtful whether history tells
all.
Murder Usual Charge.
Murder was the usual charge.
Pigs figured prominently among the
dumb criminals, no doubt because
they mingled with their human
neighbors in streets and peasant
homes with little restriction.
Domestic animals were booked
for charges before civil courts like
human offenders, but wild animals
we're committed to tn, judicial
branch of the church. Ecclesias-
teal courts handled suits even
against snails, snakes, caterpillars.
horsefiies, grasshoppers, dolphins.
locusts, cells, and most frequently.
rats. The accused, being dumb,
would be assigned a glib human
advocate, would have charges read
loudly before their haunts or holes.
and were usually punished with
anathema and Punishment
This procedure was followed in
the new world with Cana
dian suit against turtledoves.
Murder was not the sole crime
which brought beasts before the
bar. Domestic animals in the house
where crime had been committed
were condemned as accessories and
executed IN accordance with an old
South German law. Oxen could be
Killed in early Rome for serving a
farmer in blowing up a boundary
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
Vowel Sounds

Prof. r. G. Kent, secretary of the
Linguistic Society of America, says
IAN languages have vowel sounds.
Some forms Of writing do not indi.
. cate the vowel sounds, but in actual
speech the vowels are necessary to
support the consonants. The
Egyptian hieroglyphics did not in
dictate the novels; and neither did
the written form of Hebrew until
the invention Of the so-calied maso-
retic points. The relation of speech
to writing II q very complex one
which cannot be answered in q few
sentences"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
Spaniards Revive Gang
Customi Call 1t "Walk''

Madrid.-The expression "llevar
a passear"-"to take a walk"-has
come to have the same sinister
connotation in Spain as taking a
ride" in American gangster jargon.
No check has been kept on the
number to take walk" but in
formed persons believed it has
reached several thousand. The
slightest suspicion of Fascist lean
ings is a death warrant in those
parts Of Spain held by the govern
ment.
The largest wholesale execution
OF Fascists YVES reported to have
taken place recently outside Punte
de Ballecas, south of Madrid, with
254 persons slain in one batch.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
Night Workers Right
to Spank Wife UnheId

Sudbury, Ont.-The right Of a
night worker to spank his wife If
breakfast isn't ready when he
comes home was upheld by Magis-
trate ]. S. McKessock. The Judge
dismissed an assault charge which
Mrs. Patty Winters had brought
against her husband, Edward. Win
ters testified he came home from
the mine where he is employed and
found no breakfast ready. His wife
came downstairs and prepared IL.
de followed her back to the bed
room and scored three hits with q
fiat palm, he said.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09
Wheat From Field to
Table in One Dav

OWosso, Mich. - w. F. Alex
ander, Rusf township farmer,
believes he set record when
he ate wheat for supper that had
been growing in the morning.
He harvested his wheat in the
morning with a combine which
cuts and threshes in a single
operation; ground some of the
wheat in the afternoon and his
wife made wheat gems for sup
per.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09

Admiral Saizo Kobayashi of the
Imperial Japanese navy whose APP
pointment as governor general of
Formosa was announced in Tokyo.
Formosa is an important link be-
tween Japan and the South Sea is
lands, and it has been decided, ac-
cording to reports, to have it al
ways under the governorship of a
high navy official.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09

Benjamin A. Javits, New York
lawyer-economist, co-author of MIRA
and representative of many impor-
tant trade groups, has drafted a
substitute plan for MIRA that will
be the basis of broad movement
to remedy many industrial, agri-
cultural and social ailments. The
plan is described in a book by Mr..
Javits, 1.-The Commonwealth of In
dustry," that has been studied by
many important national leaders.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-09

Subway Eavesdropping: Her
husband is a good provider - he
provides her with q swell alibi
whenever he stays out late at
night"
q Bell Syndieale.-WNU Servie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
sow CONTESTS
DEADL|NE NEAR
Ton Litter Club Entries
Must Be on File by
March !.

Sow entries for the Hoosier Ton
Litter Club must be filed with the
Livestock Breeders Association not
later than March to be eligible for
competition for gold, silver and
bronze medals, Horace E. Abbott,
county agricultural agent, has an
nounced.
Entries must be accompanied with
a so cent fee for each SOW. The
judging is based on eight-pig filters
which must weigh one ton within
18O days after March /, according
to rules governing the annual con-
test.
Each litter is to be ear marked
and inspected before June 20 by
committee.
On Sept. II, the club is to have
a show at the city stock yards spon-
Sored by the Purdue University
Agricultural Extension Department,
the Belt Railroad and Stock Yards
Co., the indianapolis Livestock Ex-
change, the Producers Commission
Association and the Breeders Asso-
citation.
Prizes are to be awarded in three
classes: A for filters of eight with
an average weight between 200 and
225 pounds, B for filters with an
average weight of more than 225
pounds, and G for all pigs raised in
one litter, which may include filters
from the first two classes.
Ten prizes are offered in both
A and B classes ranging from $50
to SIS, and three are to be awarded
in the third with the first at $40.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
STATE JOBLESS
BILL is STUDIED
BY COMMITTEE
Social Security Act Trainers
Hope to Complete Work
by End of Month.

The revised bill on unemployment
insurance Vac to be studied today
when nfembsrs of the joint legis-
lstive committee. drawing special
session legislation reconvened in an
effort to finish their work by the
end of this week.
After abandoning yesterday
further consideration of proposals
TO amend the gross income tax
law. the committee decided to vest
wide authority in the State Tax
Board to compel all counties to bear
their share of the social security
program cost.
BY making the tax board final
authority on county welfare levies,
more uniform application Of the
security program would be obtained
as demanded by Federal aid 'condi-
tons, it was explained.
Final Agency on Appeal
The State Welfare Board first is
to pass on budgets and tax levies
fixed by the county welfare boards,
but the State Tax Board would be
the final agency on appeal from the
welfare board decisions, it was said.
1t finally was decided by the com
mittee that county welfare directors
must have been residents of the
county at least two years prior to
appointment.
Salaries are to range from $1,000
TO $4,000 a year with Marion and
Lake Counties falling in the latter
category. County population is to
be the determining factor on both
director and board member salaries
the latter to range from 500 to
$500 a year.
Pension Change Is Made
After abandoning proposals to
amend the gross income tax law.
the committee changed the date on
which old-age pensions are to be
paid to persons SIS by advancing it
one year. Originally, the payments
were to be to persons 70 until July
l, 1897, but the committee advanced
to July l, 1888, the date when per-
sons IS are eligible.
Dr. Verne K. Harvey, state Health
Board director, appeared and ex-
planned that his department may
claim S125,000 in Federal funds un-
der the public health section of the
Federal bill without the state ex-
pending additional funds.
Another 100000 might be obtained
by the state matching that amount,
but the health department does not
contemplate the expenditure, DR..
Harvey said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
M0NEY-BACK
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
SURE SIGN OF SPRING:
PIED PIPER IS BACK
Rat Exterminator to Begin Cam
paign in City Tomorrow.

The surest sign of spring-almost
as unerrlng as sulphur and-mo-
lasses, maple syrup and sassafras
tea-is the fifth personal appear
ance of pied Piper" w. A. Amann.
Mr.. Amann starts today on his rat
discriminating campaign, under the
Endorsement of DR.. Herman G.. Nor
gan, Health Board secretary.
In past campaigns he estimates
that he has exterminated 10000
rodents in Indianapolis. The crew
of experts under his direction are
to work one block at time until
the entire city is covered. The poi
sons used are odorless and taste
less and are recommended by the
government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
INDIANAPOLIS TOMORROW

Indiana Mineral Aggregates AS
ISOLATION, all day, Claypool
Indiana Brotherhood of Thresh-
ermen and Farm Power Users, all
day, Spencer.
Exchange Club, luncheon, WASH
ington.
Young Democrats of Indiana, all
day, Claypool,
Optimist Club, luncheon, Column
bia Club.
Indiana Farm Bureau, Claypool.
Reserve Officers Associst on,
luncheon. Bamboo Inn.
Society of Residential Appraisers,
luncheon, Columbia Club.
Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Board
of Trade.
World Prayer Day meeting, II
a. m, Roberts Park Nj. E. Church.
Delta Tau Delta, all day, Lincoln.
First and Second Wards Repub-
lican Club, p. m, POOL Winter-av.
Speakers Club, 8 p. m, Lincoln.
Federation of Community Civic
Clubs, S p. m. Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
SEVEN.YEAR
1T CHI ( N d ( D

The itch tscabies) Is highly con-
tagious. IL not treated, it will continue
for life. 1t Is not blood disease, but
Is caused by the itch mite. which bur-
rows and forms torturOus galleries
within the skin.
The itch-nite spreads rapidly and
Is immune to ordinary treatment. The
PsOric institute has perfected a simple
itch mite almost instantly, and ribs
you of your trouble in three days.
Get complete EXSORA treatment Mt
once at
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
0ARP PROBE TO START
James r. Sullivan, X. c. Lawyer, Is
Investigator Counsel.
By United Press

AFW IFIVtVh 7 Tt0N
SHIN GTON, Feb. 81
Equipped with a special counsel and
probably with a $4,000 fund, the
House Committee on the Townsend
Plan is expected to swing into action
next week.
The committees investigator
counsel is James r. Sullivan, de-
scribed by Chairman c. Jasper Bell
ID, Mo- as "one of Kansas City's
best-known lawy srs.'
Evening star., 1936-06-29
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Evening star., 1936-06-29
By Fran Keith.

turn The report could really not be
anything but favorable.
= As she entered the living room she
was glaid that she had ordered red
tulips. They would accent her black
velvet gown.
Darling"
Their arms went around each other.
You look simply stunning! How do
Sou feel?"
'Marvclous!"
well you certainly look it,"
Each one sank into a comfortable
lounge and took cigarette from a
box at her elbow.
"TELL me everything that happened,
from the minute you left until
howl"
And want to know everything
that's happened since I left. Has
Betty had her baby?"
"A boy. And the darlingest baby
you've ever seen in your life. It's Just
an angel. You've never seen such a
child"
I'm so glad. Betty's such darling
And I want her to be so happy. But
must tell you. Our trip was simply
grand. On the train to New York We
met the Templetons. So we had some
one to play bridge with all the way
He has such sense Of humor anc
she's so attractive We really had a
circus. We were actually sorry to ar
rive in New York"
Did you see Mary and Bob?"
I'VE spent the week end with them
At their new apartment. John Mason
did the decorating and. my dear it,
the most stunning thing you've evel
seen. The view is simply magnificent
We saw it the night We arrived. Anc
the rooms are divine. Seven baths
and a swimming pool. And they en-
tertain like nobody in the world. WI
had to leave right in the middle Of
one OF the parties they were giving
for us And almost missed the boat"
Did you get our Wire?"
Darling, We did, and 1t was so sWee'
OF you. We weren't on the boat ovel
q half hour when we ran into tht
Pettygrews. So We had some one tt
play bridge with all the way over
She's such a darling person. And he!
10 attractive. And they know ever!
one in New York we know. Guy wa
at Harvard a couple of years afte1
Jack. We just had the grandest time.
Did YOU get my letter in Lisbon?'