The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 5

THE EMPORIAr DAILY GAZ'ETTB' Friday, June 1VK37 Wbeat Crop Largest Since 1931 YieU Year At 142,264,000 22 Million Above Crop DECLINE IN CONDITION Lack Of Rainfall During Growing Season Hurts Crop Com Now 65 Per Cent Of Normal. OPi Kansas' 19S7 wheat crop was estimated by state and federal asrieul- departments today at 142,264,000 bushels, the largest, crop since 1931, and 22.000,000 bushels above the 1S36 yield. The estimate was on the basis ol June condition, which was given at 59 per cent of normal, compared with 70 per cent last June. Acres remaining for harvest was placed at in the Joint federal and state report and the yield per aero ivas estimated at 10.5 bushels. The June 1 estimate compared with a May 1 estimate of 162,588,000 bushels.

This sharp decline, the report stated, resulted irom deficient rainfall and high temperatures the first 25 days of May. Ahindonment Extensive. Abandonment was estenslve in western Kansas where short crop will be harvested for the fifth consecutive year. Com was rated nt 75 per cent 01 normal, about average. Oats, at per cent of normal, held promise of a fair crop, the report stated.

A rye production 746,000 bushels, compared with 609,000 bushels last year was forecast. Fruit prospects are excellent with a peach crop of 231,000 bushels anc a pear crop of 212,000 bushels expected. Production last year were 17,000 and 22,000 bushels respectively. Pastures were rated In poor condition but should improve under recent rainfall, other crops were rated below condition ol lasl yeiu-. Crop the nation as a whole, government crop experts estimated on basis June 1 conditions thai this year's wheat yield would tota between 825,000,000 and 850,000,000 bushels, compared with 626,461.000 bushels last year.

The bushel yield of 1931 was the last to reach such proportions. The estimate for winter wheat 648,597,000 bushels, 519,013,000 bushels last year lAcrcage intentions point to a sprini wheat, r-rop of between 175,000,000 and 200,000,000 bushels, compared fith 107,448,000 bushels last WESTERN WHEAT REVIVES Dodge City, June 11 Kansas farmers are hopeful, following recent rains that have revived seemingly dead wheat, of producing a fourth of a normal crop Farmers reported fields which were yellow three weeks ago now are greening and heads are filling on short stalks. 75 BANKERS MEET HERE Group 2 of Kansas Association Has Discussion on Bank Management. Seventy-five bankers from Group 2 of the Kansas Bankers' association met in Emporia Thursday night lor a dinner and discussion of bank management. The dinner was held at the SToadview hole under the auspices of the association with the Emporia Clearing House as host.

Speakers included Maurice Breidenthal, of the Security Natlona bank, Kansas City, who led the discussion; Ray clevinger, pres idem of the National Bank of To W. W. Bowman, executive vice president of the Kansas Bankers' association, and M. A. Limbocker, Emporia.

Similar meetings are being held over the state for the various groups. Two such meetings are being held in Group 2, the second be mg schedule's at Ottawa tonigh for counties in the eastern half the groop. Counties represented in Emporia were Lyon, chase, Mom: Coffey, Osage and Wabaunsee coun ties. LEAVES UNDER FIRE. Police late Thursday afternoon looked for a stranger who attemptec to pass a bogus $50 check at th Montgomery Ward store.

While til store manager was investigating th check, the man left and could no- be found. He was said to hav weighed nearly 200 pounds and was dressed in kbaii shirt and pants. Used building material, see Jess Sloyer, Fourth ana Merchant. SNOW SUDE IMPEDES SCAICH POt PUNE VICTIMS Zoning Program for Land In Dust Bowl (Continued from A riant snowslWe barely missed a crew of ai'it roared down Granite peak in the Wasatch ains near Alpine, Utah, and further Impeded tht work ot rescue 1 crews seeking- the bodies of. seven persona board a transport plane when it crashed last December.

The tie did churn up the wreckage awl uncover new debris, however. LOCALETTES Douglas Powell, 14-year-old son of VIr. and Mrs. L. E.

Powell, who live 7 miles southwest of Emporia, was all smiles this morning when he into The Gazette office and of catching a pound a week ago above Lockermnn bridge, near his home. The fish wns nches long. Four pounds of eggs were In the fish. Police Harold Green, 807 Exchange, has Century Fox studio since "This Is My Affair," which stars Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, has been released. Publicity sheets sent to advertise the film, opening Bunday a.t the Granada, contain many paragraphs blacked out with crayon.

Those paragraplis have reference to Ihu off-stage romance of Miss Stan- wyck and Taylor, a love affair they Evidently will not allow used in "selling" their show. been ordered to appear at the police station with his car muffler repnir- sci arid cri both of GILSONS SCORE AGAIN The Lyon county commissioners have bought a new 1937 -ton Reo rflck-up truck from the Waters-Reo company, of Emporia. The truck was delivered about a month ago, but the transfer of tags and registration receipt for tags changed from the 1929 Ford truck traded in A dog at 803 Grove was reported have bltten'Millard Buck, Gazette carrier, Thursday evening for a second time. A complaint has reached the po- Ice that delivery trucks which have wen driving out of alleys at high speed are daegerous to children. The police investigated a complaint that children have entered Church of God parsonage at 203 South Exchange, recently vacated.

i was. not made until today. Trie new tmck cost the county an even $500 including the old truck. Signs for Bright new black and yellow signs soon will direct traffic to Lake Kanola. The signs for this purpose, recently ordered, have arrived at office of Mayor Frnnk Lostutter.

One sign will be placed at the intersection of 505 and the Dunla'p road, about 9 miles west of Emporia; another near the Kahola schoolhouse direct traffic west from the schoolhouse, and a third sign will direct motorists south from this east and west road toward the MARKETS AT THEIR BEST Former Emporians who have sent word they intend being in Emporia the Big Four Brotherhood picnic Wednesday are Carl J. Watkins and Mr. and Mi's. Lewis Yengst, of Sansas City, Mr. and Mrs.

William Gilpin, of Albuquerque, N. Mrs. Lou Middaugh, of Amarillo, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Xoush, ol Losvg Beach, and Mr.

and Mrs. Ed Roush, of Amarillo. Sari J. Wntkins was in Emporia Wednesday visiting friends. He now with the Farmers' and Bankers' Ufe Insurance company, of Kansas City.

He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wntkins, early Em- porians. Ben Winter, who lives on Route 5, on Highway SOS west of Emporia, nas been hired as an extra clerk in the office of the county clerk to work on tax abstracts. Mr.

Winter tms been a salesman for the Lord Grain company and has worked at a service station. He was graduated from the Emporia. High school and attended Emporia Business college. After attending the University of Michigan a short time, Mr. Winter taught three years in private school of speech In Detroit, Mich.

The county commissioners today viewed a road, miles south of Americus, on which a petition seeking to vacate the road has been filed. Censored. Fireworks apparently popped ui the publicity office of Twenticth- "It's delightful. It's delicious, it's array of fresh fruits and vegetables which meets the eye of the housewife in search the "something 'new and different" which will tempt her family's appetite. And what family won't do justice to a fresh cherry pie? Or a fresh blackberry cobbler? Or fresh sliced peaches with plenty of sugar and cream? Those who are faced with the vegetable problem can find an answer in the stock of new peas, new potatoes, tender, fresh egg plant, new crookneck or white squash, home grown head and leaf lettuce, green onions, radishes, green and wax beans and mangoes on the Emporia market now.

Besidc.s the fine interpretation of "Rip" by F. L. Gilson the play "Hip van Winkle," which was produced in Albert Taylor hall at the Teachers College Thursday night, the most outstanding features of the performance were the scenery, designed by Russell Porter of the speech department, who also directed the play, and the colorful Dutch Colonial costumes worn in the play and designed by Miss Knthryn Kay- scr, a member of the speech department. Playing opposite "Rip" us his wife, "Gretchen," Miss Louise Butcher's, interpretation of the fiery Dutch housewife to the first two acts, and then the complete reversal of character into the docile wife" of "Derrick von Beekman," was particularly noteworthy. Of the minor roles the most outstanding was the part of the mentally unbalanced "Cockles," the weakling son of "Derrick von Beekman," which was played by the veteran of many GUsori productions, Ronald Hopkins.

The cast included, besides those already mentioned; Jean NicUSn, Baker Parham, Peggy Jean Wells, Forrest Frease, Wilbur Daeschner, Marjorie Baltz, Dorothy Bertrahd, Claude Amett in parts and Willard Shepherd, Ralph Bell, Beulah Baum, Jane Lee Swope, Mary Amrine, Esther Cluypool; Dorothea Lutt, Naomi Kline, Esther Ehrllch, Anabel Stone, Myron Rodee, Bobby Dabbs, Eric Ericsson, Albert Ropfogle and Richard Stone in groups. the allowed off the field and pastures, it'is not available 1 for the crops and grasses that are needed to protect ths soil from the ravages of wind erosion." Pinnell said terracing, contour cultivation, strip cropping, pasture furrowing, artificial lakes and tree planting.must be pursued. Some wheat will be harvested in the bowl this year. Virtually all the acreage a dozen counties In corners of Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas; Kansas and New -Mexico', has abandoned, but a small portion of the total acreage may yield three or four bushels to the acore. This is the heart of the bowl.

Outside this area; in 90 other counties of the same five states, prospects are better in some sections, and, some, growers on (he outer edge believe they will make eight to 10 bushels an acre. i No Crop Since 1831. Fields which survived damage during the winter and early spring by smothering or cutting as dust storms swept over them, suffered for want of moisture several weeks before May. rains came. Farmers expressed their disappointment that they did not get a fturoper crop this year.

They take stoically. It isn't the first time they have had their hopes dashed. They havent had a wheat crop since 1931. Now they are turning to row crops it sorghums, kafir, rhilo maize, broom corn, millet and others, listing.their land preparatory to The rains have encouraged They need to land, a cover of some sort. Grain and feed crops are in.

demand to finish cattle, and 'the stubbles, left after harvesting, help to hold, the soil in place, L. Nix. Stevens county commissioner and farmer 30 years, said he thinks farmers in the area would better off if they raised row crops and forgot about wheat. CHURCH CHANGES SCHEDULE. For the summer months the Grace Methodist church is changing hours Tomatoes for slicing are cheaper of morning service.

The preaching than at any time this spring. the remainder of this month and Avacadoes from the west will put through July and August will be at that certain something into any 1Q o'clock and the classes will meet meal. Cabbage, the largest, whit- i'n their rooms immediately after, the est heads housewives have seen for benediction of the morning worship long time, and at a new low price, hour, A short period at the open- too, will find a welcome at the ta- i of the morning worship will be ble. There is almost no limit to the R' ven the children. Closing devo- mirnber of tempting desserts avail- tionals of the Sunday school will be ADMITS A Nerve Of Pert Atlantic City.

N. June The dumber you an, better off you 'arc, a group of nerve isU told the American Medical association today and died to support their praise of stupidity, Specialists on nervous the body cited of group of operations on humans in which large portions of the pre-frooUl lobes of the brain, lying just back of the forehead, wen removed. These lobes, they explained, are the centers of Intelligence and reasoning but, apparently, also are the areas 'Where many nervous disorders run out of control. but Mad comfort for a few a month year home with Minen! Wool uid you'll enjoy comfort. Your be delightfully cool aU SMtmef.

wiaur. Cots fowl COM, ceo. Pay of cosse. Ask our coereaieat pUa. frsa.

AfaUtant State's Attorney Emmet Manyiban of Chicago Margaret Montgomery (above), nurse, had admitted a story she told of a plot against J. Rockefeller Prentice was a -hoax." She told the story to "make a martyr" of herself, Monyl- ham quoted the nurse as saying. TO LICENSE ALL BOATS Cuy Commissioners Pass Ordinance To Protect Boaters at Lake. Lose Money on Wheat. know a.

lot of farmers who make a little money raising row crops arid then trying'to grow wheat," he said, "rney always hope to hit a bumper year and another row crops requires about three times more work than wheat. "This county looks pretty bad, I don't know what we would have done if the government hadn't aided us." He merely shrugged his shoulders and laughed when asked where all the new automobiles parked along the' curb in Hugoton, the county seat, came from. The town, was filled with Saturday afternoon farm visitors. As we left him, Mr. Nix called: "Vou should have been here the other evening.

We had a real black duster." Grazing Land Htiped. Grazing lands have benefited by the The jrass is green and and cattle look fat and fietk. Raniie cattle have learned about dust storms. When the dusters first came the cattle drifted with the wind and dust, their tails in the Now they turn direction from able now. There stitt Is time for 1 eld after the classes are dismissed.

strawberry desserts, especially if the rains continue. Green apples for applesauce now are on the market. Cantaloupes are here and watermelons are coming soon. If one has a yen for aristocratic foods, how aoout some fresh pineapple ice or some New England blueberry muffins? No matter how pickayunish a family may be, there is a solution somewhere on the market this spring. An attempt is being made to have morning worship serve as devo- ionnl hour for the Sunday school opening.

One hundred children received communion last Sunday in the children's communion service. SENTENCED FOR MURDER Wakeeney June 11 Trego County District Judge C. A. Spencer, sentenced Tony Bieker to life imprisonment in state penitentiary today or. the letter's plea of guilty to a charge of first degree murder in connection with the slaying of John Kutina, 54, Brownell farmer.

Bieker was brought here from Hutchlnson last night and entered his plea, be'- fore Judge Spencer today. After the sentencing officials started with him for Lansing. Used building material, see Jess Sloyer, Fourth and Merchant. SHOE SALE Children's Thorogood Health Shoes to Vates BANG A BANG 507 LOOKING FOR A FARM? THE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY offers many exceptional faun buys in tontfo, Texas, Nebraska. Ounces and Indiana We hove large number in ail parts ot these slates, providing you a choice ot aH sizes, types, ond- prices We have something lo lit yoor nfed ond your pocfcelfcook.

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Bvy an Bonded Farm Write to FARM SALES DOT. OKLAHOMA OTT, OKUL SEND FOR OUR LIST OF FARMS Seek your prospective buyers where they seek The Gazette advertising columns. which the duster is blowing and stand still until it don't look so good now, but come back in a couple of months," said Walter Irwin, Ania- riyo automobile dealer. "You won't be able to recognize the country. These rains, you know." The city commissioners this morning passed an ordinance regulating boating on Lake Kahola, set- Ting license fees for boats- and op- eiators and setting forth various requirements governing types and condition of boats allowed on the lake.

Each boat on the lake will require a license fee costing $3 and each operator of ft sail boat or; motor boat must have an operator's license costing $1. -Boat owners are warned- in the ordinance that they ride at their risk, as the city does aot represent that the lake is No poorly constructed boats or boats not in safe condition will Le licensed. When on the water, each passenger must wear a life preserver unless, he is a good swimmer. No boat must speed or be operated in a way dangerous to lift. Operators of and motor boats must submit proof that they are competent operators.

Must Write 1 Applications. To obtain a license, written application must be made with the city clerk, together with information providing the: boat meets requirements of ordinance. All licenses expire December 31 of each year. Licenses may be at any time for careless or reckless operation. When a boat is licensed, the own- e- will receive a boat number which must be painted on both sides 'of the boat in letters 3 rinches high.

Sail boats and motor boats operatic between dusk and dawn must iave a white light visible 300 feet "rom rear; a red light on the left and a green light on the right at the prow, all visible 300 feet from ihe front. boats.must have ivhite lights visible 300 feet in all directions. Violations of the ordinance call for fines of not more than $50 or a jail sentence of not more than 30 days, or both. WAIST-HIGH ON POOR LAND F. B.

Emporia business man, who brags'that he owns "the second in Lyon county," on a ridge west of Reading, waded through some; tall wheat on the farm Thursday. Mr. Ross said the which averages more than waist-high, looks like it might yield 25 bushels per acre. He reports that his farm's soil is so poor it usually does not grow good weeds, but that the spots most nearly depleted of fertility are covered with knee-high wheat. Ross also has a good stand of tame grasses sown on the farm this spring.

KANSAS LUMBER CO. A. C. Nlcielson, 811 Mechanic 37 H.IMTKOTI MINERAL WOOI YOUTHS IN CHAIR McAlester, June 11 (JP) Grinning Leon SUer and Charlie Sands, gritting hie teeth, died in the electric chair at McAllister prison today ice the murder of a deputy sheriff their girl companions on a brief criminal foray slept in a nearby, cell block. They died for the slaying of J.

E. Wilson, Grady county deputy sheriff, shot down in a gun fight with at a farm house after. Saads and SUer fled from the robbery ol the bank on May 31, 1935. Flashily dressed in grey suits, ties, with red and white handkerchiefs tucked away in their breast pockets, SUer, 21, and 20, walked unaided the few steps from the death cells to the FILLING STATION ROBBED. V.

H. of the Ben Hur filling station on East Twelfth, has reported to the police that the station was broken into Wednesday night. Only a few articles were taken. Job printing at TUB Gaxette. Save 3 Now tvtryont can afford this "first choice" in refrigerators; It cost less to euw a G-E and now it less to buy one.

Yon hive the thrill of owning the bocaad savt ttret ways on price, on currenccojt upkeep. Choose a C-E for Enduring Economy All General Electric Triple. Thrift have the automatic THRIFT UNIT, famous sealed-ia- steel "cold-maker" that keeps oo producing an abundance of cold as cheaply after years of service as when braod xtfw. IS Now Styled Modols with low as Emporia Plumbing A Heating Co. MARSH BROS.

A Want Ad inserted in the Classified columns of The Gazette will bring quick results. ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL NOTES New patients are Bert Collins, of Strong City; Miss Beity Hamilton; Dean of the Teachers Collect; campus, and Cecilia Wiverly. Walter Souders has gone to his home, NEWMAN HOSPITAL NOTES New patients the hospital are Mrs. B.

Martini Commercial, and Uves on West South avenue. Patients, who left the Houk, of Americas; Miss Kimble, of Hartford, and Mrs. W. P. Pierce and son, 417 Elmr- EMPORIAN WINS THIRD Millard Hllmore, Cottonwood 4-H club member, won third place in the state: home modeling contest held in connection witty the 4-H club roundup at Manhattan.

PiUmore received a S12 prize. Fillmore won first prize in the Lyon county contest held in connection with the recent visit in Emporia of the better' farm train. By reason of his county tory, he was given a.lree trip, to the roundup by Emporia business men. I'M GOING AFTER ONE Of THOSE FORD DEALER USED CAR SPECIALS! HpHEY'RE a in used car well J- as price! include lots of late model cart of almost every make. On many of the best buys, you'll find the famous RAG of the top in used car value 1 For means renewed and guarantee J-brst class condition throughout, with a written promise of satisfaction or your money beck in full See your own Ford Dealer today.

If you now have a car, use it for down a better one. If you haven't one now-bere's your chaaee to start ridiitjf bijh-eJ very little ooetf AT FORD DEALERS ONLY Firestone Auto' Snpply Scrrice Store Biz Tlh A Mechanic i to ate Voter N. B. C. Roi PICTURE FRAMING METAL ALBERT CORNWELL flit Photographer Conl Phone IBM Watch, Clock 1 jewelry Repairing FortJewelSliop Saata Fe Watch 519 Commercial TYPEWRITERS And Vp All Makes ECKDALL M'CARTY 126 ITS cm FOR SHOES Mesa and Forest Supply the settings for outdoor romance in FLAME I 1 IY MAKIfi NEKVAUD Starting June 16 The Gazette.